The Nanny Diaries

by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

This book chronicles just one of Nan’s many years as a nanny. She literally runs into 4-year-old Grayer X in the park, and within a week becomes his primary caregiver.

Part of me wants to think people like the Xs don’t exist, but after working for five years at Southdale Mall in Edina, MN — an affluent suburb of Minneapolis — I realize that they are out there.

Recommended book. It’s an interesting, yet in some ways disturbing, glimpse into the lives of the rich, clueless “upper-crust” of society.