Can someone tell me the title of this book?

[bcmcknight77]

I'm afraid I don't have too much useful information. I suggested to a friend if he thinks overcoming poverty is so easy, he should try it. He said it had been done, and a book was written about it. He doesn't know the title or the author.

He thinks it takes place in Charlotte, NC. Apparently a guy forsook all the priviledges of weath and education, got a crappy job and apartment, worked his way out and wrote a book about it.

Per my friend, "the cover is kinda green, with him standing there in a wife beater, with a back pack over his one shoulder. The title is stacked to his right."

I searched all over amazon with various key words relating to social status, poverty, etc and came up blank. Anyone know what book he is talking about?

 

[sparkchaser]

You are thinking about Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shephard. It was the rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (great book).