This article is published in issue 49 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until December 7, 2021
Stephanie land she has already made the Christmas tree and hopes her Bernese puppy won’t eat it. During this time he coughs all night and sleeps late in the morning. On his fingers he has tattooed the inscription: So Write, then write. I know this because I follow her on Instagram. Stephanie is the author of the autobiographical book from which the series was based Maid. It is about a very poor young American mother, on the run from her abusive husband, who cleans houses to support herself and her daughter. When I finished her I needed to stay a little longer in her world and I started following her on social media. Her daughter Story, who is called Maddy in the series and is three, is now fourteen. There are many photos from when she was little, even the video of when she was one year old and started walking in the shelter for battered women that had welcomed them.
Without spoiling, I can say that one of the merits of this story is its view of reality. It is a measured and honest look also when he tells of the protagonist’s bipolar mother, the alcoholic father, the violent husband in spite of himself, the daughter without a home and no money to eat, the employer without feelings and the indifferent rich people to whom she cleans the toilet.
Stephanie Land’s is not a blackmail or sentimental tale, but a dry and real one. Domestic violence has many shades and sometimes it is difficult to recognize it because the victims do not consider themselves as such. How often we do not want to see, inside and outside of us, the need and the discomfort. Stephanie, on the other hand, sees everything and even now, with a book on the charts and a Netflix series inspired by her, she seems ready for the fact that life can cheat you in an instant but no one can take away from her the ability to tell it. As a comment on his tattoo photo he wrote: So write… Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker. I have to translate?
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