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AudioBook information:
Author: K Chiucarello
Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
Release date: November 17, 2026
Audiobook Duration: 7 h 5 min
Summary: “Nanny Nanny is absolutely stunning. Exquisitely crafted, with visceral intensity throughout. I loved it.” —Elliot Page
“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
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.
After years of caring full-time for the children of the rich and the famous, our narrator has been struck, finally, with baby fever. Over a drink with sympathetic friends, she lists all the reasons why she wants to have a baby, beginning with a story about the intoxicating, abusive relationship with an ex-wife that she barely survived. She ponders how to fill the gaping void left in the wake of such horrific domestic violence. What’s the next most violent thing a woman can do to herself? she asks. Have a baby.
Soon, her story opens other doors to the past—the seemingly idyllic childhood she spent under her father’s roof; the mentorship, and judgment, of female writers whose children she has reared; and the man, her first love, who now seems to be offering her a second chance. Each unraveling thread reveals the complex tangle of thrill and pain, tradition and progress that has led her to this moment, this calling. Is it time for her to become a mother?
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.
Reviews:
“Family, love, language, and the failures of all three dominate this wisely voiced, sensitively self-propelling, and continuously surprising novel.” – Booklist, starred review
“[A] clear-eyed debut. It’s a sharp-edged look at how trauma shapes but doesn’t define a life.” – Publishers Weekly
“Nanny Nanny is absolutely stunning. Exquisitely crafted, with visceral intensity throughout. I loved it.” – Elliot Page
“In the midst of so many literary reconsiderations of motherhood, this book announces itself as an essential left-field addition to the contemporary canon—a story of a career nanny, a professional mother substitute, yearning for a child as a way to undo and reconfigure the physical and emotional violence of an ex-wife; unraveling, too, the way her self-formation as a mother-in-absence, a body to be depleted and taken for granted, dovetailed with her experience of domestic abuse. K Chiucarello is a thrilling, forthright, sensual, deeply perceptive writer; 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
“What a surprising, perceptive novel Nanny Nanny is, stitching together violence and care at every turn and always insisting on tenderness.” – AyĹźegĂĽl SavaĹź, author of The Anthropologists
“A deftly crafted, blazing page-turner about honest, hard work and the many occupational hazards of affection. An unforgettable voice.” – Bud Smith, author of Teenager
“Astounding. At once brutal and loving, fast-paced and strikingly attentive, Nanny Nanny is for anyone who has felt the break of one life and started again.” – Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back
“Surprisingly funny, tremendously thoughtful, this is a debut to watch out for.” – LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
About the Author:
K Chiucarello is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. Nanny Nanny is their first novel.