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My Hollywood and the Nanny Book Phenomenon

by Margaret K. Nelson | August 13, 2011 | Summer 2011

By and large, the recent crop of nanny-tales ignores the realities of childcare workers (and their employers), relying instead on messages of racial and cultural superiority and assurances that money cannot buy happiness.

Books Reviewed

  • My Hollywood, by Mona Simpson
  • The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  • The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
  • You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny, by Suzanne Hansen
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