"A probing, heartfelt memoir about the true meaning of family" Kirkus Reviews "Powerful... wrenching" New York Arts "A beautiful memoir from the heart..." Melana Watrous, author of If You Follow Me "Beautifully written, poignant ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough." Alice Kahn Ladas, Ed.D., psychologist focusing on early childhood trauma; co-author of The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality In Nanny: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Nancy Salz reveals the pain of conflicted love for her mother and the longtime nanny who raised her. While searching for her late nanny's life story, Salz recovers their intense bond that survived derision and death and unearths secrets kept for nearly fifty years. A few days before Nancy Salz was born, her nanny, Elizabeth Hanna, a small, forty-five-year old former orphan with olive skin, a long nose and a short forehead, arrived on the stoop of the Salz family's home, a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her only space was a freezing, former bathroom connected by French doors to Salz's much grander room. Salz's parents were only t
"A probing, heartfelt memoir about the true meaning of family" Kirkus Reviews "Powerful... wrenching" New York Arts "A beautiful memoir from the heart..." Melana Watrous, author of If You Follow Me "Beautifully written, poignant ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough." Alice Kahn Ladas, Ed.D., psychologist focusing on early childhood trauma; co-author of The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality In Nanny: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Nancy Salz reveals the pain of conflicted love for her mother and the longtime nanny who raised her. While searching for her late nanny's life story, Salz recovers their intense bond that survived derision and death and unearths secrets kept for nearly fifty years. A few days before Nancy Salz was born, her nanny, Elizabeth Hanna, a small, forty-five-year old former orphan with olive skin, a long nose and a short forehead, arrived on the stoop of the Salz family's home, a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her only space was a freezing, former bathroom connected by French doors to Salz's much grander room. Salz's parents were only t