by Kiley Reid
First published 2019
Emira, a 25-year-old black babysitter, is accosted at a high-end grocery store by a security guard who accuses her of kidnapping her white charge. Mortified, Emira seeks help from Alix, her employer, a confident woman who wants to make things right. But Emira is adrift, and Alix's desire to help unearths a past connection that threatens to undo them both. Such a Fun Age is a sharp, funny debut about the complexities of race, class, and the tenuous bonds of family.
Genres: fiction, african-american, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
368 pages · Paperback · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Content warnings: racism