In her dazzling new novel Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America. Our narrator is twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, who has left her home town to study, and has become a part-time nanny. She is quickly drawn into the life of her employers´ adopted child and their complicated household. A lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times, from `the best American writer of her generation´