![]() ![]() 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. 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 things right.īut Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. After Kelley takes the video of Emira in the grocery store, she asks him not to release it. How did the narration impact your reading experience Did you relate more to one woman than the other Did that change as you read the novel 2. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. SUCH A FUN AGE is told from the perspectives of two highly different women: Emira and Alix. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, 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, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. 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, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. ![]()
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