The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin, 2002
Two broke nannies and a tribe of Manhattan parents who want childcare without ever calling it a job — a comedy of money, manners and other people's children.
Emma McLaughlin
McLaughlin and Kraus both worked as Manhattan nannies while studying at NYU; the novel grew out of those years and the stories they traded afterward.
Feels like humor, society and family.
A job interview where neither person will say the word job.
This is the only part of the Interview that resembles a professional exchange. We will dance around certain words, such as “nanny” and “child care,” because they would be distasteful and we will never, ever, actually acknowledge that we are talking about my working for her. This is the Holy Covenant of the Mother/Nanny relationship: this is a pleasure—not a job. We are merely “getting to know each other,” much as how I imagine a John and a call girl must make the deal, while trying not to kill the mood. Books by Emma McLaughlin
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