Megan Stack

Deels gelezen in 2021 of 2022. Veel losse, journalistieke ervaringen die zich in veel verschillende landen afspelen.

The universal experience of working mothers: how to manage, and how to manage the helpers who come to the house to help raise the children and clean the house. I loved every minute of this book, especially the empathy and understanding Stack has for all three of the women, in China and India, who helped her manage.

Well written, but thin. Hard to like.

An interesting book. Some very haunting anecdotes--I'm thinking in particular about Ahmed and Birak near the end, but there are other stories too that I won't forget. It does get a little repetitive, though. I feel like Stack had something between a long magazine article and a short book and chose to stretch her material into a short book. I can't fault her for that, really, especially since she was nominated for a National Book Award! But the stretching shows.