Anne H’s Reviews > Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage > Status Update

May not be able to finish after she talks about her nanny who has a child the same age as hers, talks about how she and the nanny multitask parenting all day and night, and gives literally zero mention to where her nanny’s kid is or any iota of sympathy for a fellow mother who has to parent other children all day because of her financial situation. I’m going to lose it.

ALSO that when she reminisces about the good years, her husband does the absolute minimum and even in retrospect she can’t stop fawning over his bare bones ass parenting.

And then talks about her OWN nanny when she was a kid with absolutely no curiosity about why she looked so old and wrinkly for 30 (poverty) or seemed short tempered sometimes (poverty) and then gets her fired one day after years of working for her family for the abuse of brushing her hair roughly and taking her to church. Like……..

But wait until you hear about how hard it was for her to make friends at the country club adjacent to her new vacation home one summer 😢 ok I’ll stop but for real.

If you saw me crash out talking to myself on my own status update, no you didn’t.