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Where would we be without boasts?

Where would we be without Gutenberg?

Even the thought of it so absurd?

Where would we be without boos absurd Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be?

Where would we be without good to bird?

It's a rhetorical question, sir,

but where would we be without books? From KCRW and KCRW.

I'm Michael Silverblatt and this is Bookworm.

Today my guest is Mona Simpson.

Her new novel is My Hollywood.

You know, people having children and having a husband with a career and a wife with a career find themselves looking for a nanny.

How do you learn about being a parent if you've surrendered to a nanny?

And how does the nanny who is often working and sending money home to her own children, in this case in the Philippines?

How does the nanny, who is living without her husband and family, substitute with your child, to create her emotional life?

This book, My Hollywood, is narrated in alternate chapters by the mother and the nanny,

and we get to see a good deal of world in this book, the world of marriage, the world of careers, the world of immigrant workers.

Tell me how you came to choose the subject.

I think the subject more or less chose me.

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