Upstate Launch: Nanny Nanny by K Chiucarello

Join us in celebrating local author K Chiucarello's debut novel, Nanny Nanny A single, 35-year-old career nanny decides to have a baby of her own in this incandescent debut novel unsettling traditional narratives about motherhood, gender, class, domestic violence, and the politics and labor of care. K Chiucarello’s stunningly original debut novel explores the brutality of gendered violence, including the gossip that polices women’s choices and the conventions that determine which women have the right to tell their story, and how. With wit, candor, and unprecedented nuance, Nanny Nanny upends every expectation of a book about motherhood, queering the biological clock and subverting narrative bounds. “In the midst of so many literary reconsiderations of motherhood, this book announces itself as an essential left-field addition to the contemporary canon . . . Nanny Nanny comes at you like an incendiary secret, a sweet and dangerous flame kindled in the dark.”—Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror Chiucarello will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Novack, the author of Murder Bimbo, the exhilaratingly twisty story of a sex worker turned political assassin on the run - "Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era.” Copies of Nanny Nanny and Murder Bimbo will be available for sale and signing after the talk. This event is free and open to the public - we just ask that you RSVP!