Excerpt from The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

And how, exactly, am I to fit in?

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Ultimately, there would come a turning point in every job when it seemed that the child and I were the only three-dimensional people running around on the black-and-white marble chessboards of those apartments. Making it inevitable that someone would get knocked down.

Looking back, it was a setup to begin with. They want you. You want the job.

But to do it well is to lose it.

Hit it.

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