An exciting development in Emira’s present conjures Alix’s shameful past. The incident is recorded on a bystander’s iPhone, and leads to an entanglement between Emira and Alix that will make them both question motives and their own identities. Alix sends Emira to a nearby upscale grocery store with the toddler, where Emira is questioned by a security guard on whether she, a young black woman dressed for a night out with friends, has kidnapped small, white Briar.
One night when Emira is out with friends, she gets a call from her employer Alix Chamberlain, girl-power entrepreneur, begging Emira to come babysit her daughter Briar while the family deals with an emergency. She can’t help but compare herself to her successful friends, wondering why her humbler career goals make her less worthy of true adulthood.īut the book begins with an incident that sparks skepticism and judgment, unleashing otherwise unthinkable actions. The Chamberlains haven’t yet given her nanny status, so the gig provides no benefits, and Emira is about to lose her parents’ insurance coverage when she turns twenty-six. Twenty-five-year-old Emira is a struggling babysitter for a wealthy family in Philadelphia. Her book shows how one person’s personal but familiar nightmare can be turned into another’s publicity stunt-and the levels of privilege that these situations reveal. Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, strikingly emphasizes different takes on political correctness from the perspectives of millennials from different classes and backgrounds.
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