Tinderbox /
"Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she's getting when she hires a nanny--it's her job, after all, to analyze people. Her phobia-addled son has just moved back in with his wife and child, and the new nanny,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she's getting when she hires a nanny--it's her job, after all, to analyze people. Her phobia-addled son has just moved back in with his wife and child, and the new nanny, Eva, seems like a perfect addition: she cleans like a demon and irons like a dream, and she forms an immediate bond with Myra's grandson. But as Eva, a Peruvian immigrant, reveals more of herself, what seemed a felicitous arrangement turns ominous"--Dust jacket flap. |
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| Physical Description: | 303 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374277864 0374277869 |