Ordinary Lives. A Social Worker's Notebooks

Valérie AGHA

A selection of genuine and moving portraits.

Why are there so few eye witness accounts, blogs, books and films about this profession?
Because social workers do not really communicate. When the media decides to treat this subject, it is usually to paint a negative picture. The author thus decided to tell people about her job, initially on a blog and then in this book.
You are sure to be touched by her depictions
snapshots of a milieu, a universe, and era. as seen from a waiting room.

- This book can be compared to Les Tribulations dune caissière (Checkout, A Life on the Tills) by Anna Sam although more emotional.
- It takes the pulse of our current situation and the crisis that we are in the midst ofA raw description of daily precariousness, not lacking in humor.
- A clear view of a profession that is sometimes as insecure as the existence of those it is supposed to protect.

Valerie Agha is 33 years old. She has been a social worker for ten years. She is the author of the blog Pause Café (http://www.assistantesociale.overblog. com). Chroniques de vies ordinaires is her fi rst book.