Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives (1887)

Does Michelle possess the qualities and values she needs to be a mother? A child abuse survivor, a teenage runaway and a victim of rape, Michelle is now facing the biggest challenge of her lifeathe gift of a child. Who will she turn to for answers and direction? Who will guide her? Does she trust an eccentric priest, a kind elderly stranger or perhaps her own maternal instincts? Is Michelle able to face the consequences of her actions and the hard reality of her choices? Michelle will need to trust the bonds formed between mother and daughter when her own daughter comes to her with an answer, a path and a solution.