I have to admit, I'm in awe.' -Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six It's both wildly fun and breathtakingly wise, deftly and confidently confronting issues of race, class, and privilege. Kiley Reid has written a book with no easy answers, instead, filling her story with delicious gray areas and flawed points of view. ' Such a Fun Age is a startling, razor-sharp debut. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone 'family,' the complicated reality of being a grown up, and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason. 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.

At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. Alix resolves to make it right.īut Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. 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.Īlix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same.

A fun age