Minding Ben - Victoria Brown Reviews
Description:ISBN 1401341519 /
Newest Review: ... a fellow immigrant in whose house Grace has been lodging in return for minding her children and working during the week for ... more
... the Bruckners and looking after their son Ben.
I found the dialogue and relationships between the characters from Trinidad and of Jamaican origin more interesting and believable than those between Grace and her employers, the Bruckners, the unpleasant Miriam and equally unlikeable Sol. The author is a mother and also came to the USA to work as a nanny so this is a world she clearly knows well, so I was expecting to find out more about Ben, but I never really felt her interactions with him in the book were that...more
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by - written on 19/01/11, updated on 19/01/11 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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Grace is a 16 year old who has spent her whole life in Trinidad, and when a life in New York beckons, she soon finds herself having to grow up very quickly when the relative who has promised her work fails to deliver, and Grace has to fend for herself in the strange world that is that of a poorly paid, official paperless Nanny. "Minding Ben" tells the story of Grace, from her viewpoint, in what is an interesting and revealing story about two diverse cultures with which I am not really familiar, as the Caribbean meets the Big Apple. As soon as I started reading this book I did find that I could empathise and relate to Grace really quickly, she was a ... Read the complete review
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