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Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
Stephanie Kiser
★★★★· Published 2024· 320 pages· read 2024
A memoir by a woman who grew up poor and spent seven years nannying for New York's ultra-wealthy to afford the city. Poignant and funny about class, motherhood, and how rigged the ladder really is.
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Sophie Kinsella wrote this after her own brain tumor diagnosis, about a novelist facing the same. Slim and quietly moving.
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Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman microdoses LSD for a month and journals the effect on her mood and marriage. Candid, smart, and more thoughtful than the premise sounds.
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Caroline Knapp
Knapp's clear-eyed memoir of loving alcohol and then leaving it. Honest in a way that stays with you.