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The fallback plan

What to do when you've just graduated from college and your plans conflict with those of your parents? That is, when your plans to hang out on the couch, re-read your favorite children's books, and take old prescription tranquilizers, conflict with your parents plans that you, well, get a job? Without a fallback plan, Eshter Kohler decides she has no choice but to take the job her mother has lined up for her: babysitting for their neighbors, the Browns. It's a tricky job, though. Six months earlier, the Browns' youngest child died. Still, as Esther finds herself falling in love with their surviving daughter May, and distracted by a confusing romance with one of her friends, she doesn't notice quite how tricky the job is ... until she finds herself assuming the role of confidante to May's mother Amy, and partner in crime to Amy's husband Nate. Trapped in conflicting roles doomed to collide, Esther is forced to come up with a better idea of who she really is.

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  • "What to do when you've just graduated from college and your plans conflict with those of your parents? That is, when your plans to hang out on the couch, re-read your favorite children's books, and take old prescription tranquilizers, conflict with your parents plans that you, well, get a job? Without a fallback plan, Eshter Kohler decides she has no choice but to take the job her mother has lined up for her: babysitting for their neighbors, the Browns. It's a tricky job, though. Six months earlier, the Browns' youngest child died. Still, as Esther finds herself falling in love with their surviving daughter May, and distracted by a confusing romance with one of her friends, she doesn't notice quite how tricky the job is ... until she finds herself assuming the role of confidante to May's mother Amy, and partner in crime to Amy's husband Nate. Trapped in conflicting roles doomed to collide, Esther is forced to come up with a better idea of who she really is."@en
  • "What to do when you've just graduated from college and your plans conflict with those of your parents? That is, when your plans to hang out on the couch, re-read your favorite children's books, and take old prescription tranquilizers, conflict with your parents plans that you, well, get a job? Without a fallback plan, Eshter Kohler decides she has no choice but to take the job her mother has lined up for her: babysitting for their neighbors, the Browns. It's a tricky job, though. Six months earlier, the Browns' youngest child died. Still, as Esther finds herself falling in love with their surviving daughter May, and distracted by a confusing romance with one of her friends, she doesn't notice quite how tricky the job is ... until she finds herself assuming the role of confidante to May's mother Amy, and partner in crime to Amy's husband Nate. Trapped in conflicting roles doomed to collide, Esther is forced to come up with a better idea of who she really is."
  • "Esther, aspirante a actriz, a sus veinticinco años es escupida por la universidad sin que el mecanismo de la industria cultural la absorba, viéndose obligada a escoger una opción tan temida como inevitable: volver a vivir con sus padres y gastar lo menos posible. Ante la obligación de regresar al nido, lo mejor que puede hacer es poner en marcha un plan de evasión. Esther se encuentra en un estado de inercia y de ensoñación continuo, pero no tendrá más remedio que aceptar el trabajo que su madre ha encontrado para ella: hacer de canguro para la hija de sus vecinos, los Brown. Sin embargo, no será un trabajo facíl. Esther se convertirá en la confidente de la pequeña May, a la que debe cuidar, y de su madre Amy, que está en pleno proceso de recuperación tras la pérdida de su segundo bebé. Amy, aún traumatizada, acaba construyendo, como nueva <<loca del desván>>, una inquietante <<habitación del duelo>> en la buhardilla de su casa, mientras su marido, Nate, no puede dejar de echarle el ojo a la jovencísima niñera. Esther, atrapada entre modelos de supuesta madurez completamente conflictivos y condenados a chocar entre sí, se verá forzada a dar un giro a su plan, replantearse, como una nueva Jean Eyre, su papel de nanny y hacerse una idea más clara de aquello que desea y aquello que no puede evitar ser. -- p. [4] of cover."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Un plan de evasión"@es
  • "Un plan de evasión"
  • "The fallback plan"@en
  • "The fallback plan"
  • "Un plan de evasion"

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