“Holding On explores crucial aspects of the health disparities debate: how attempts to ease the impact of serious chronic conditions often create as many problems as they set out to solve and how legislation focusing on marginalized groups—especially people of color—can generate unintended consequences. O’Daniel tackles these problems while offering a gripping account of how HIV-positive African American women navigate the ... Read moremany challenges they face.”—Sabrina Marie Chase, author of Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds      “Holding On is a new portrait of American poverty—a social, political, and economic condition rooted in an unequal, unfair, and unsustainable system. Alyson O’Daniel reveals the lives that are at stake in such a system, and the struggle of poor African American women to survive it with dignity.”—Alisse Waterston, author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century Show Less