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Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies
Hudson Street Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 21, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 1594630232
EAN: 9781594630231
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Twenty-five bestselling and award-winning female writers explore the emotional minefield of mother-nanny relationships
From coast to coast, articles and commentary on the new nanny culture abound. Nanny novels have captured public imagination to bestselling results, and thousands of Γ’β¬Εhow to hire a nannyΓ’β¬Β guides are purchased every year. But no book has addressed the unique intimacy and intensity of the nanny-mother relationship through narrative with the depth and sensitivity found in Searching for Mary Poppins. Susan Cheever, Marisa de los Santos, Joyce Maynard, Daphne Merkin, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Roxana Robinson, Rebecca Walker, and Elizabeth Graver, along with seventeen other leading women writers, explore the nanny conundrum, delving into the complex issues that todayΓ’β¬β’s mothers experience when they turn the care of their children over to a stranger. Raising questions that reach beyond money, race, class, gender, immigration, and legality into the darkest areas of love and fear that a mother feels, they offer viewpoints both rivetingly disparate and hauntingly familiar.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - September 25, 2006
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