Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
Seiten
2024
Sourcebooks, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-7282-9816-0 (ISBN)
Sourcebooks, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-7282-9816-0 (ISBN)
In this emotional and insightful memoir about nannying for New York City’s richest families, Stephanie Kiser chronicles her journey through the world of the Western elite – a world in stark contrast to her own impoverished childhood.
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What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all…
After a dysfunctional childhood as one of four kids born to teenage parents and raised "white trash" in poor Rhode Island, Stephanie Kiser finds herself a 22-year-old, first-generation university graduate drowning in student loan debt. To stay afloat, she surrenders her career-track PR job for a position as a babysitter to New York City’s toddler elite.
The span of seven years takes Stephanie on a journey from working alongside a stay-at-home mum in her ten-million dollar Park Ave apartment, to a “no discipline” family, to the Kushners, world-class doctors and finally, to a position with a young couple – both high-powered lawyers – with three small kids.
Interwoven with Stephanie’s time in the glamorous world of the 1% (in the unglamorous role of domestic help) is the narrative of her own upbringing, the contrasts illuminating both the effects of privilege and the grit of self-sufficiency in the modern Western world.
With sharp insight, sensitivity and humour, Stephanie Kiser offers a glimpse into the lucrative but exhausting world of childminding for the elite – from emotional highs to crushing lows.
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What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all…
After a dysfunctional childhood as one of four kids born to teenage parents and raised "white trash" in poor Rhode Island, Stephanie Kiser finds herself a 22-year-old, first-generation university graduate drowning in student loan debt. To stay afloat, she surrenders her career-track PR job for a position as a babysitter to New York City’s toddler elite.
The span of seven years takes Stephanie on a journey from working alongside a stay-at-home mum in her ten-million dollar Park Ave apartment, to a “no discipline” family, to the Kushners, world-class doctors and finally, to a position with a young couple – both high-powered lawyers – with three small kids.
Interwoven with Stephanie’s time in the glamorous world of the 1% (in the unglamorous role of domestic help) is the narrative of her own upbringing, the contrasts illuminating both the effects of privilege and the grit of self-sufficiency in the modern Western world.
With sharp insight, sensitivity and humour, Stephanie Kiser offers a glimpse into the lucrative but exhausting world of childminding for the elite – from emotional highs to crushing lows.
STEPHANIE KISER is an author from Providence, Rhode Island. After studying Writing for Film & Television at Emerson College, she moved to New York City. She currently resides in Astoria, New York with her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Burger.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2024 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 209 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7282-9816-4 / 1728298164 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7282-9816-0 / 9781728298160 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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