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10 great books featuring working class heroes

nspired by a posthumous story collection from Lucia Berlin: a list of excellent stories starring proletarians too rarely given voice in industrial life.

3. "Love Me Back," by Merritt Tierce

Merritt Tierce鈥檚 debut novel tells the story of a single mother who works as a waitress at a Dallas steakhouse. She鈥檚 the opposite of a goody-two-shoes, a self-destructive young woman trying to make it in the world. But once you encounter Marie, you can鈥檛 look away. You鈥檒l even root for her. Tierce鈥檚 prose is as bold as a Sharpie, and whether she鈥檚 describing a sexual encounter or a shift at a restaurant, the words pulse on the page.

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