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Kiser, Stephanie,

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. - Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2024. - 315 pages ; 21 cm

Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author.

"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 college grad drowning in student loan debt. To stay afloat, she surrenders her career-track PR job for a position as nanny to New York City's toddler elite. The span of seven years takes Stephanie on a journey from working alongside a stay-at-home mom in her ten-million dollar Park Ave apartment, to a "no discipline" family, to the Kushner's, 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 glamourous world of the 1% (in the unglamourous 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"--

ISBN: 9781728298160 1728298164

LCCN: 2023059629

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kiser, Stephanie,

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nannies--United States --Biography.
Wealth--United States.
Social mobility--United States.
Equality--United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.

LC Class. No.: HQ778.63 / .K56 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 649.1 KIS B