![]() Tasked by Alix to take two-year old Briar out from the house late one evening, Emira is accused by the security guard, on the word of a too-good Samaritan, of kidnapping her young ward. While her well-off white employers, Alix and Peter, are generous enough to remunerate her above scale, Emira is aware that her situation is neither sustainable nor desirable (although that doesn’t stop her from buying a leather jacket when she comes into some money unexpectedly later on).Įvents are set into motion when she is accosted one evening at an upscale grocery store by a security guard caught in the throes of white paranoia. Unlike her group of more successful friends-one of whom is a medical professional and another an upwardly-mobile business executive-Emira depends on her babysitting gig to make ends meet. ![]() The novel’s protagonist is Emira Tucker, a 20-something black babysitter fresh out of college with little direction and limited means to orient herself. Such a Fun Age is Kiley Reid’s debut novel which has drawn much admiration for its witty and sharp observations of modern life couched in fluent and pacey prose. ![]()
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