In 2005, Spanish television audiences saw the debut of the nation's first spinoff, the sitcom "Aída." The show featured the tribulations of its title character and her working-class family in their struggle to "llegar a fin de mes." It seemed to promise a sensibility enacted in the US series "Roseanne," where another eponymous heroine faced similar conditions with wit and verve. "Aída" became a tremendous hit for its network, Telecinco, but unlike "Roseanne," its approach to the working class did not break new ground. Such a distinction belongs to another cultural product also appearing in 2005, Elvira Lindo's novel, "Una palabra tuya." Consisting of a first-person narration by Rosario, a municipal street sweeper, the novel delivers working-class credentials through an insider's view and focuses on the physical conditions and labor of work, nonaestheticization and nonidealization of working-class life, and the consciousness of a multiple we voiced through the narrator's "I."