{"product_id":"9781728298160","title":"Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant","description":"\u003cb\u003eSaddled with crushing student debt, Steph Kiser jumps head-first into the lucrative but unglamorous and exhausting world of nannying for New York City's richest families, immersing herself in a world in stark contrast to her own impoverished childhood, in this emotional and insightful new memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nAfter 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nInterwoven 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Kiser","offers":[{"title":"Sourcebooks |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-08-06","offer_id":44652781732095,"sku":"9781728298160","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5f81efa2-2f75-4973-bfc1-6bf987d3dcfb.jpg?v=1705603231","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781728298160","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}