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Author:

Reid, Kiley, author.

Title:

Such a fun age : a novel / Kiley Reid.

Edition:

First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition

Publisher:

G.P. Putnam's Sons,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

313 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Babysitters--Fiction.
Malicious accusation--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
FICTION--Coming of Age.
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Women.
African American women.
Babysitters.
Interpersonal relations.
Malicious accusation.
Race relations.
Babysitters--Fiction.
Malicious accusation--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Novels.
Social problem fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Notes:

January 2020 selection of Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club.

Summary:

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," the complicated reality of being a grown up, and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

ISBN:

0525541918
9780525541912

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1246237977

Locations:

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

GNPB062 -- Newhall Public Library (Newhall)

ZOPC437 -- Woodbine Carnegie Public Library (Woodbine)