NELL LAKE

Author | Journalist Professor | Scholar

The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love

“A beautifully written account of a year in the life of caregivers...The Caregivers is as elegantly constructed as a novel, but more than that, Lake writes about these people with such warmth and vividness that they feel as memorable as our favorite fictional characters. In sharing these stories with readers, Lake has written a book that bears witness to their ‘necessary, intimate, private heroism.’”

– Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

Mother. Nurse. Housewife. Maid: How Figures of Care Shape American Politics

Forthcoming. History and essays about women, race, and the obligation to care.