A Welfare Mother

I didn't aspire to write a review, but I see no one else has and there isn't much information about this book either here or elsewhere on the Internet, so I am going to do the best I can to remedy that. This is an anecdotal study of a welfare mother in Manhattan written in about 1970 for an article in the New Yorker. The author spent over a year with the subject and became part of the family so she could take notes and make observations as a fly on the wall. The result is a study that reads like a novel of life inside this household, which is quite remarkable. I can't imagine that many other authors have invested the time to research a project like this one. It's a quick and entertaining read and reading even parts of it are illuminating (I did read the whole thing of course). It never drags out any topic but moves on to something fresh.