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Such a Fun Age
Kiley ReidKiley Reid explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships & the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason. With empathy & 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. It is a searing debut for our times.
Alix is a woman who gets what she wants. Emira – 25, aimless and broke - babysits for Alix. One night, Emira takes Alix’s two-year-old daughter to a local shop. Seeing a young black woman with a white child, a security guard accuses her of kidnapping. A crowd gathers, a bystander films everything – & Emira is utterly humiliated. Without saying anything, Alix resolves to ‘make things right’. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, & wary of Alix’s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance & has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira goes public & unearths someone from Alix’s past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, & each other.
"... a bold, urgent, essential exploration of race, class, labor, friendship, identity & self-delusion, both deliciously readable & incredibly complex. This smart, quick-paced novel tracks the fallout & triumphs that follow its characters’ slightest gestures & impulses. Without ever resorting to didactic tones or prescriptive proclamations, Reid portrays the way different bodies are read in public spaces ..." – Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, The Star Tribune
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Kiley Reid’s short stories have been featured in Ploughshares, December, New South, & Lumina. Such a Fun Age is her debut novel & was a New York Times bestseller & longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, & The Guardian.
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