#103 Unseen Translation- Kate Atkinson
Missy is a high-end nanny.
“She had a reputation, like Jesuitical troubleshooter, a Marine Corps.
Mary Poppins—when all else failed, call Missy Clark. They expected her to drop
in from the skies on the end of an umbrella, like a parachute floating into a
country in the middle of a civil war, and rescue their children from bad
behavior.”
She took on Arthur, the son of the rich and famous. He was
surprisingly well put together for such a child and Missy liked him a lot. She
took him around to museums and tried her best to instill bits of advice and knowledge to his day
treating him not as an 8 year old boy, but as an adult worthy of the world.
“Missy believed that knowledge was best taken in small, digestible doses. “
“…stoicism was a virtue that was badly in need of reviving.”
“from Echo- an unfortunate nymph. Show me one that isn’t.”
But an 8 year old boy is still an eight year old boy and
when your mom is famous and distant, and your father is a neglectful rock star,
you are bound to have some issue. This is a charming story, nothing too deep,
but nice to read. It’s hard to identify with anyone in the story.
Notable Passage: “There are many places. So many places that
you need never come back to where you started from.”
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