By Leslie Lindsay
A striking, surprising debut from from an exhilarating new voice, SUCH A FUN AGE is a compulsive page-turner.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK
“The most provocative page-turner of the year.” –Entertainment Weekly
“A great way to kick off 2020.” –Washington Post
~FICTION FRIDAY: SPOTLIGHT!~
You guys! I cannot stop thinking about–or talking about–this book! It’s a bit like Jennifer Weiner meets the pacing of a psychological thriller meets Kim Brooks’ SMALL ANIMALS, but there’s so much more, too. SUCH A FUN AGE (Putnam, December 30 2019) is compulsively readable; it’s like a bad car accident you just can’t take your eyes from. And I am so grateful to G.P. Putnam’s Sons for this review copy.
Emira Tucker is a 25-year-old attractive black babysitter trying to make ends meet between her part-time jobs. She out at a friend’s 26th birthday party when the mother of her young charge calls–it’s nearly eleven p.m.–requesting her babysitting services–NOW. She doesn’t look like a babysitter at the moment. She’s had a few drinks. She doesn’t really want to leave the party to babysit, but she’s broke.
“I urge you to read Such a Fun Age.” –NPR
A 2020 NAACP Image Award Finalist
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Mrs. Chamberlain hands off the toddler and Emira and Briar head to the local, uppity supermarket. Little Briar loves looking at the bulk foods. It’s bright and shiny, safe, so why not? But soon she’s confronted by the store’s security guard. A young black woman out late with a white child…this doesn’t look good. He accuses Emira of kidnapping the two-year old. A small crowd gathers. A bystander films everything. Emira is furious and embarrassed. All ends…or does it?
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“In SUCH A FUN AGE, Emira Tucker’s relationships with her employer and new boyfriend culminate in an unexpected, combustible triangle so ingeniously plotted and observed that my heart pounded as though I was reading a thriller. This is not a world of easy answers but one in which intentions don’t match actions and expectations don’t match consequences, where it is possible to mean something partly good and do something mostly bad. The result is both unsparing and compassionate, impossible to read without wincing in recognition—and questioning yourself. SUCH A FUN AGE is nothing short of brilliant, and Kiley Reid is a writer we need now.”
–Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists
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. It is a searing debut for our times. This is an absolute must-read.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kiley Reid earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing workshops with a focus on race and class. Her short stories have been featured in Ploughshares, December, New South, and Lumina. Reid lives in Philadelphia.
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Leslie Lindsay is the award-winning author of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA (Woodbine House, 2012). Her work has been published in Pithead Chapel, Common Ground Review, Cleaver Magazine (craft and CNF), The Awakenings Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ruminate’s The Waking, Brave Voices Literary Magazine, Manifest-Station, and others. She has been awarded as one of the top 1% reviewers on GoodReads and recognized by Jane Friedman as one of the most influential book reviewers. Since 2013, Leslie has interviewed over 700 bestselling and debut authors on her author interview series.
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