![]() ![]() ![]() The first 250 pages of Sullivan’s novel build a warm friendship between Elisabeth and Sam, and put into place the many problems that will come to a boil in the third act. She feels completely out of place among her “Real Housewives”-esque neighbors, who wind up their so-called book club by getting wasted at the local bar.Įlisabeth hires Sam, a senior studying Studio Art and English Lit, to take care of baby Gil three days a week so she can get back to work on the proposal for her third book. Take whatever you’re picturing and add two hundred miles,” Elisabeth is quick to explain. ![]() But since then her husband has left his job to pursue an invention idea and they’ve moved to the college town upstate where his parents live. Former New York Times journalist and bestselling author Elisabeth was happily settled in Brooklyn just a few months earlier, when she took a buyout from the paper, gave birth and joined the tony BK MAMAS social media group. “Friends and Strangers” also features a well-to-do writer. ![]() Kiley Reid’s “Such a Fun Age” made a splash with its sassy, provocative approach to the operation of race and class in the relationship between a white writer and her black babysitter in Philadelphia. Courtney Sullivan - the second novel on this topic in the past few months. The fraught connection between a mother and her child’s babysitter is the focus of “Friends and Strangers,” by J. She’s not your friend, she’s your employee. ![]()
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