In many ways, this is a book about the gig economy, the shrinking safety net, the sort of weight of student loan debt and other forms of economic hardship on young people. A novelist friend suggested she turn that story into a book, Sullivan says, "and it wasn't until several years later when I was pregnant with my first child, that I started thinking I might want to write it, because suddenly I had been both women, the mother and the babysitter." Ten years later, Sullivan crossed paths with the woman again - and realized she didn't remember their relationship at all. And her mother and I grew very close," Sullivan says. "I was a babysitter and I, my senior year of college in particular, I took care of a little baby whose family had just moved to western Massachusetts from New York City. She says the idea for the book came from her own experiences. Courtney Sullivan's new novel, Friends and Strangers. And that's the relationship at the heart of author J. I'm talking about the relationship between a mother and her child's caregiver. It is one of the most intimate and complicated relationships around, and for many women - and yes it's mostly women - an all-important one.
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