Review
What the Babysitter Sees
New York Times Book Review, pp.10-10
06/28/2020
Abstract
Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. one of the great pleasures of reading fiction - always but especially lately, when isolation so limits our voyeuristic opportunities in the real world - is the potential for snooping, for pulling back the curtain and observing, unseen, lives unfold. On Elisabeth's side, there's the affable husband, who wants another baby; the wealthy meddling father, whose money she smugly rejects; the no-nonsense Brooklynite best friend; the con artist/aspiring Instagram influencer sister; the Eckhart Tolle-disciple therapist; the dull group of book club moms she meets on her suburban street; and her kindly in-laws, who are on the brink of financial ruin. An anxious Elisabeth takes pleasure when the quiet of a somber fertility clinic waiting room is disrupted by someone's Naughty by Nature ringtone ("It was the greatest thing that had ever happened, or would ever happen"); Sam sleuths to discover that Elisabeth's allegedly-fromthe-drugstore hand soap actually cost $46; the try-hard balloon archway Elisabeth purchases for her son's first birthday party leads passers-by to mistakenly assume she's having an open house.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What the Babysitter Sees
- Creators
- Claire Lombardo
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- New York Times Book Review, pp.10-10
- Publisher
- New York Times Company; New York
- ISSN
- 0028-7806
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/28/2020
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9984445494002771
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