- Název:
- Such a Fun Age
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- A Best Book of the Year:The Washington Post o Chicago Tribune o NPR o Vogue o Elle o Real Simple o InStyle o Good Housekeeping o Parade o Slate o Vox o Kirkus Reviews o Library Journal o BookPageLonglisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeAn Instant New York Times BestsellerA Reese`s Book Club Pick "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly"I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPRA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted 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 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," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
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Such a Fun Age
Reid Kiley
EAN: 9781526612168
A Best Book of the Year:The Washington Post o Chicago Tribune o NPR o Vogue o Elle o Real Simple o InStyle o Good Housekeeping o Parade o Slate o Vox o Kirkus Reviews o Library Journal o BookPageLonglisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeAn Instant New York Times BestsellerA Reese`s Book Club Pick "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly"I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPRA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted 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 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," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
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