Such a Fun AgeA Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Reese's Book Club Pick "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly "I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPR A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times. |
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User Review - Kristelh - LibraryThingRead for debut, woman author of color. This story really gives you a look at racism from the top down instead of the bottom up. The question being what happens when you do the right thing for the ... Read full review
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User Review - LyndaInOregon - LibraryThingThis is one of those books that shows up with some frequency on current “best of” lists but which ultimately disappoints. I nearly bailed a quarter of the way through, when Reid uses a coincidence of ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 36 |
Section 3 | 57 |
Section 4 | 75 |
Section 5 | 84 |
Section 6 | 97 |
Section 7 | 123 |
Section 8 | 137 |
Section 11 | 179 |
Section 12 | 233 |
Section 13 | 263 |
Section 14 | 276 |
Section 15 | 289 |
Section 16 | 300 |
Section 17 | 307 |
Section 18 | 311 |
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Such a Fun Age: 'the Most Provocative Page-Turner of 2020' - Now a Sunday ... Kiley Reid No preview available - 2020 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Such a Fun Age |
| Author | Kiley Reid |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2021 |
| ISBN | 0525541918, 9780525541912 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Literary Fiction / Women |
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