What happens when you do the right thing for the wrong reason? Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket 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 it 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.
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Such A Fun Age
von Kiley Reid
What happens when you do the right thing for the wrong reason? Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket 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 it 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.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(5)
Rezension von Rojdagood for her ✨️
Rezension von Jane4.5 ⭐️
Rezension von EllemirDieses Buch hat mich ein wenig irritiert - Rassismus in all seinen Ausprägungen scheint dieses Jahr extrem viel Platz auf meinen Leselisten einzunehmen. Insofern fand ich es interessant, hier zwei weiße Protagonisten zu sehen, die völlig überzeugt sind, nicht rassistisch zu sein, allerdings auf eine verquere Art genau das sind - und dabei den Splitter im Auge des Gegenübers sehen, nicht aber den Balken im eigenen Auge. Allerdings wirken alle Figuren auf mich künstlich, einschließlich der Protagonistin und ihren Freunden, das kleine Mädchen, dass sie betreut, wirkt auf mich absolut unglaubwürdig für eine Dreijährige (und ich habe wirklich merkwürdige Dreijährige kennengelernt). Insofern - spannender Ansatz, aber in der Ausführung für mich leider nicht wirklich gelungen.
Rezension von Judith LewickiThe only thing I really wanna say about this is: If the first chapter was a short story and sold as such . it would have been 5 out of 5. The rest of the book felt pointless to me - I mean I understand its intent and all of that, but it would've felt more powerful to me to leave it after the first chapter and be like - this is it. This is sadly reality. The rest of the book felt constructed and it lost its power somehow. Still important topic. And I would recommend reading it if you are interested.
Rezension von Carlos R. DiazI find that many relationships are transactional, none more than the arrangement between an employer and her employee. In "Such a Fun Age," debut novelist Kiley Reid crafts two fully, fleshed-out characters in Alix Chamberlain and Emira Tucker. The former hires the latter to babysit her precocious daughter Briar. Nannies are the ones who are really raising the kids, right? Notwithstanding, Alix strives to befriend her young, pretty Black babysitter at all costs. This work of fiction is a fine novel that explores universal themes, such as race, class, friendship, privilege and the casual racism of the liberal elite. I enthusiastically recommend this book. That is all.