Kiley Reid


Such a Fun Age

Reid, Kiley | SUCH A FUN AGE


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780525541912

En gripande berättelse om ras och privilegium, där en ung svart barnvakt och hennes välmenande arbetsgivare ställs inför oväntade prövningar. En insiktsfull skildring av relationer och identitet. Bunden i pocket.

  • En skarp och underhållande roman.

  • Utforskar teman kring ras och klass.

  • Utgiven som pocket.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Penguin USA
ISBN: 9780525541912

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-04-20

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A 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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Vanliga frågor om Such a Fun Age av Kiley Reid

Boken handlar om ras och privilegier, centrerad kring en ung svart barnvakt som felaktigt anklagas för att ha kidnappat ett barn, vilket tvingar både henne och hennes arbetsgivare att konfrontera sina fördomar.

Romanen utforskar teman som rasrelationer, sociala klasser och maktrelationer, med fokus på interaktionen mellan en framgångsrik kvinna och en barnvakt som kämpar med sin identitet.

Boken är en pocketutgåva publicerad av Penguin USA den 20 april 2021.

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