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| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| ISBN 13 | 9780525541905 |
| ISBN 10 | 052554190X |
| Book Subtitle | A Novel |
| Book Description | An instant new york times bestseller a reese's book club x hello sunshine book pick "the most provocative page-turner of the year." --entertainment weekly "a great way to kick off 2020." --washington post "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. |
| Editorial Review | A wnyc get lit with all of it book club pick "reid constructs a plot so beautifully intricate and real and fascinating that readers will forget it's also full of tough questions about race, class and identity....With this entertaining novel, reid subverts our notions of what it means to write about race and class in america, not to mention what it means to write about love. In short, it's a great way to kick off 2020." ---washington post "a complex, layered page-turner... |
| About the Author | Kiley reid earned her mfa from the iowa writers' workshop, where she was awarded the truman capote fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing workshops with a focus on race and class. Her short stories have been featured in ploughshares, december, new south, and lumina. Reid lives in philadelphia. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Kiley Reid |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 43830 |
| Number of Pages | 320 |
Such A Fun Age : A Novel Hardcover English by Kiley Reid - 43830
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