Such a Fun Age : A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Such a Fun Age : A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

 
When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white child she's actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix, a feminist blogger with a 'personal brand' and the best of intentions, resolves to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When she meets someone from Alix's past, the two women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know - about themselves, each other, and the messy dynamics of privilege.

Staff Review by Ben Hunter:

A quick and addictive read, Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age places Emira, a young woman of colour, into the household of Alix Chamberlain, a feminist blogger with a "personal brand" as babysitter to her two-year-old, Briar. After Emira is subjected to public racism and humiliation in the local supermarket of Alix's well-to-do neighbourhood, Alix becomes obsessed with making things right, putting the two women on a collision course.

This is a page-turner that gently tightens the screws on its readers moment by awkward, crazy and wonderful moment. A sharp and intelligent examination of often overlooked friction points of race, class, privilege and domestic work in the 21st century, I particularly love Reid's authentic representation of little Briar in this book as a real character with needs and desires of her own. Such a Fun Age is clever, funny, provocative and oh so refreshing.

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.

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  • ISBN : 9781526612151
  • Product Type : Book
  • Format : Paperback
  • Author : Kiley Reid
  • Language : ENG
  • Country of Publication : GB
GTIN: 9781526612151

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