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Ms. American Dream: A Memoir of Making It, No Matter What

By (author) Patricia Williams-Lee, With Jeannine Amber

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â€œAmerica is supposed to be the land of opportunityâ€”where any poor kid can grow up to become a millionaire. Thatâ€™s the story. But Iâ€™ma tell you how it really went down.â€ â€”Ms. Pat From the author of the acclaimed memoir Rabbit and star of BETâ€™s The Ms. Pat Show, an audacious new memoir about rising from strife to success, tackling obstacles, and celebrating your wins with a laugh. Before she was the star of BETâ€™s Emmy-nominated smash sitcom, The Ms. Pat Show, before the Netflix specials, sold-out tours, and critically acclaimed memoir Rabbit, Ms. Pat was a fifteen-year-old eighth-grade dropout raising two babies in one of Atlantaâ€™s poorest neighborhoods. With no mentor, no road map, and no safety net, she wasnâ€™t chasing the American Dream. She was told it wasnâ€™t meant for people like her. If youâ€™d seen her back then, you wouldnâ€™t have bet on a happy ending. And yetâ€¦look at her now. In Ms. American Dream, Ms. Pat picks up where Rabbit left offâ€”chronicling the wild, hilarious, and hard-fought climb from food stamps and Section 8 housing to television deals, Hollywood writersâ€™ rooms, and a suburban life so comfortable her dogsâ€™ house has its own built-in washer and dryer. In a country where the rich get richer, and regular folks are told to â€œwork harder,â€ Ms. Pat learned the rules of a system that wasnâ€™t built for her to win. She outmaneuvered case workers, bill collectors, con artists, and hustlers. She found her place in an industry where she was told she didnâ€™t belong. Raw, fearless, and laugh-out-loud funny, Ms. American Dream is about more than fame. Itâ€™s about class, strategy, and reinvention. This isnâ€™t a Hollywood rags-to-riches fairy tale. Itâ€™s messy, complicated, and outrageously funny, because itâ€™s true.