Such a Fun Age

A Best Book of the Year:The Washington PostChicago Tribune NPR Vogue Elle Real SimpleInStyle Good Housekeeping Parade Slate Vox Kirkus Reviews Library Journal BookPageLonglisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeAn instant New York Times best sellerA Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book PickThe most provocative page-turner of the year. (Entertainment Weekly)I urge you to read Such a Fun Age. (NPR)A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice Such a Fun Age is a binge-worthy and bighearted story about race and privilege set around a young Black babysitter her well-intentioned employer and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living with her confidence-driven brand showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter Emira Tucker is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard seeing a young Black woman out late with a White child 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 things right.But Emira herself is aimless broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. At 25 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 and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.