Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work For, and the Children They Love
by Blaine, Tasha
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0547335830
- ISBN 13
- 9780547335834
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About This Item
Mariner Books, 2010. Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Synopsis
When she was in her early thirties,Tasha Blaine briefly became a nanny. She expected an easy, nine-to-five stint, but instead she discovered the vast, varied, and largely unknown world of nannies. Often overlooked and invisible, these women also hold great power in the families they work for. Blaine was learning what so many parents want to know: What does our nanny think of us? And what happens all day behind our front door? To find out, Blaine interviewed nannies all over the country and immersed herself in the lives of three of them. We meet Claudia, who left the Caribbean to become a nanny in New York and is struggling to support her own child she left behind.We get to know Vivian, a young, white, college-educated woman from Boston, who wins a Nanny of the Year award even as she absorbs the painful truth that her role in the family is shrinking as her charges grow up. And we witness the struggles of Kim, a top Texas nanny who dreams of having her own family, as she moves in with a couple expecting their first baby. In telling the true stories behind the fantasies and fears we have about nannies, Just Like Family takes us deep inside the lives of women whose job it is to love.
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- Title
- Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work For, and the Children They Love
- Author
- Blaine, Tasha
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0547335830
- ISBN 13
- 9780547335834
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Ma
- Date Published
- 2010
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