Friends and Strangers

J. Courtney Sullivan

A friendship across twenty years and an employment contract, warm and quietly unequal.

A new mother in a small college town hires a student as a babysitter, and the friendship that forms across their twenty-year age gap is warm, genuine and quietly built on an imbalance neither will name. Sullivan is precise about class, work and the politics of being someone’s employer.

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