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# Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club

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A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Reese's Book Club Pick "The 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 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.

Review: Complex exploration of the space between intentions and consequences - I loved this book. I found the characters -- including their concerns, their varying tone and language registers, and their reactions to each other -- entirely relatable. (Context: I am a black woman in her mid-thirties who spent eight years in the northeastern US and has lots of cousins in their mid-twenties, with whom I chat via text every day.) If you prefer plot-driven books and/or don’t like ambiguity, this is probably not the book for you. If you have ever felt like a guest star in your own life, you may be able to relate more easily to the characters. As other reviewers have pointed out, a number of the book’s later events are signalled early. To me, the experience of watching this slow motion train wreck as it happens is central to the narrative’s point. As the book progresses, it explores two central stories and, in each, pushes the reader to question how much control any of us has over our life stories, and even our personalities. How possible is it to assert oneself and reinvent oneself, when others see you in a specific way? To what extent do the blind spots of our lives ultimately define us? Such a Fun Age’s true gift is in exploring what I’ll call “negative space”: the difference between what someone meant and how that action or characteristic is perceived. The novel balances the remarkable feat of using the exploration of this negative space to propel the action forward while also being smoothly readable. Ultimately, we spend more time in characters' heads than we do in exploring "objective" action, as the characters reflect on where they are in life, others’ potential perception of where they are in life, and where they would like to be. Through the eyes of a white woman in her early thirties and a black woman in her mid-twenties, Such a Fun Age explores race, class and power dynamics, but also aspirational motherhood, self-serving narratives, and the difference between who we think ourselves to be and who we might actually be. Other reviewers have suggested that Emira, the black protagonist, is not well fleshed out. It is true that Emira’s character has less nuance and less backstory than the two main white characters (Alix and Kelley), but I was still able to get a strong sense of Emira’s immediate desires, her likes and dislikes, and her concerns and fears -- and that was enough for me. Since Emira spends the book trying to figure out what she wants for herself, it seemed plausible that nothing too jarring might have happened in her life prior to that moment. It also seemed plausible to me that she uses her experiences to figure out what she wants, muddling through ‘no’s until she gets to her ‘yes’. Indeed, part of the book’s point is that it is OK to not buy into a hyper-aspirational narrative -- that it is OK to feel fulfilled with what others might consider to be “mediocre”. I’ve also been in a place where everyone seems to know more about what I should be doing and how I should get there than I do myself, so I found elements of both Emira’s and Alix’s internal spaces entirely relatable. Coming into Emira’s life at this moment of pause -- where she knows she must move forward in order to be considered successful but is paralyzed by her internal lack of clear direction -- also makes sense for some of the themes the book explores. During the course of the novel, we see at least three other characters (two white, one black) treat Emira as a blank space on whom to project their own feelings about what she should be doing at this point in her life. This paternalism ranges from the explicit to the unintentional and is always well meant, even as Emira chafes against it. And in rebuffing that paternalism, Emira reminds the reader that she is very much her own person, even if that person is not who the world -- or even some readers -- want her to be. To the person who said that it is possible for black people to be relaxed with their friends and speak properly, well, duh. Emira and her friends do sometimes speak to each other “properly” -- in person. Sometimes they use a far more casual register; thinking about how I speak with my friends in text and in person, that makes sense, too. I found it completely believable that Emira could receive texts that say, “Trap trap trap trap get that l.l.bean [d**k] gur” (without the brackets and asterisks), and also deploy words like “connoisseur,” as the occasion demanded. I wondered whether the reviewer that wrote this sentence doubting Emira’s language use only had type-A, hyper-aspirational friends. Lastly, I thought the book's ending provided a nice balance between answering the key plot questions while also leaving space for readers to make their own decisions about some aspects of the characters and their paths. Based on some of the other reviews, your mileage may vary! I would have actually been happy with even more ambiguity, but it seems that many people wanted less.
Review: So good! - This is my second Kiley Reid book (first of hers I read was Come & Get It) and I am officially becoming a fan! Reid is definitely becoming the queen of character driven novels for me. Her writing style is so unique, and while it usually takes me a while to get into her books, I eventually end up devouring them. I've especially been enjoying them on audio. While on the very surface level I would consider this a good read, it still manages to go much deeper and really hits on some real world issues that we face in our society (systemic racism, discrimination, etc) which are all very relevant to today's culture. I even loved that it went into "woke" culture and all the issues that can come with that like the white savior complex and doing everything in ones power to save their own image to come across as an "ally" and do good deeds for it only to be a self-serving motivation. Alix was such a complex character, who I absolutely loathed (in the best of ways) and got me thinking of the people I know in real life that act like her. Reid did such a good job at making her so infuriating. I also loved the character of Emira. She brought forth other real struggles outside of race that I really clung to, such as needing to rely on a job in order to get health insurance, and just the struggles one faces at that age - learning where we fit into society and trying to find our way into something that will make us happy, and what comes next. It's such a confusing and stressful time, and I really identified with Emira's own struggles with that. That being said, I do feel like there was something missing from the characters that would have given this book that next level of *oomph* that it needed. I think they needed just a touch more of depth, something to really make me fall in love with them and experience the story on a different level. But overall, I REALLY enjoyed this one and absolutely can not wait to read more from Kiely Reid!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #48,757 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #551 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #1,359 in Black & African American Women's Fiction (Books) #1,902 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 49,503 Reviews |

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Complex exploration of the space between intentions and consequences
*by K***N on January 27, 2021*

I loved this book. I found the characters -- including their concerns, their varying tone and language registers, and their reactions to each other -- entirely relatable. (Context: I am a black woman in her mid-thirties who spent eight years in the northeastern US and has lots of cousins in their mid-twenties, with whom I chat via text every day.) If you prefer plot-driven books and/or don’t like ambiguity, this is probably not the book for you. If you have ever felt like a guest star in your own life, you may be able to relate more easily to the characters. As other reviewers have pointed out, a number of the book’s later events are signalled early. To me, the experience of watching this slow motion train wreck as it happens is central to the narrative’s point. As the book progresses, it explores two central stories and, in each, pushes the reader to question how much control any of us has over our life stories, and even our personalities. How possible is it to assert oneself and reinvent oneself, when others see you in a specific way? To what extent do the blind spots of our lives ultimately define us? Such a Fun Age’s true gift is in exploring what I’ll call “negative space”: the difference between what someone meant and how that action or characteristic is perceived. The novel balances the remarkable feat of using the exploration of this negative space to propel the action forward while also being smoothly readable. Ultimately, we spend more time in characters' heads than we do in exploring "objective" action, as the characters reflect on where they are in life, others’ potential perception of where they are in life, and where they would like to be. Through the eyes of a white woman in her early thirties and a black woman in her mid-twenties, Such a Fun Age explores race, class and power dynamics, but also aspirational motherhood, self-serving narratives, and the difference between who we think ourselves to be and who we might actually be. Other reviewers have suggested that Emira, the black protagonist, is not well fleshed out. It is true that Emira’s character has less nuance and less backstory than the two main white characters (Alix and Kelley), but I was still able to get a strong sense of Emira’s immediate desires, her likes and dislikes, and her concerns and fears -- and that was enough for me. Since Emira spends the book trying to figure out what she wants for herself, it seemed plausible that nothing too jarring might have happened in her life prior to that moment. It also seemed plausible to me that she uses her experiences to figure out what she wants, muddling through ‘no’s until she gets to her ‘yes’. Indeed, part of the book’s point is that it is OK to not buy into a hyper-aspirational narrative -- that it is OK to feel fulfilled with what others might consider to be “mediocre”. I’ve also been in a place where everyone seems to know more about what I should be doing and how I should get there than I do myself, so I found elements of both Emira’s and Alix’s internal spaces entirely relatable. Coming into Emira’s life at this moment of pause -- where she knows she must move forward in order to be considered successful but is paralyzed by her internal lack of clear direction -- also makes sense for some of the themes the book explores. During the course of the novel, we see at least three other characters (two white, one black) treat Emira as a blank space on whom to project their own feelings about what she should be doing at this point in her life. This paternalism ranges from the explicit to the unintentional and is always well meant, even as Emira chafes against it. And in rebuffing that paternalism, Emira reminds the reader that she is very much her own person, even if that person is not who the world -- or even some readers -- want her to be. To the person who said that it is possible for black people to be relaxed with their friends and speak properly, well, duh. Emira and her friends do sometimes speak to each other “properly” -- in person. Sometimes they use a far more casual register; thinking about how I speak with my friends in text and in person, that makes sense, too. I found it completely believable that Emira could receive texts that say, “Trap trap trap trap get that l.l.bean [d**k] gur” (without the brackets and asterisks), and also deploy words like “connoisseur,” as the occasion demanded. I wondered whether the reviewer that wrote this sentence doubting Emira’s language use only had type-A, hyper-aspirational friends. Lastly, I thought the book's ending provided a nice balance between answering the key plot questions while also leaving space for readers to make their own decisions about some aspects of the characters and their paths. Based on some of the other reviews, your mileage may vary! I would have actually been happy with even more ambiguity, but it seems that many people wanted less.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ So good!
*by A***R on July 13, 2024*

This is my second Kiley Reid book (first of hers I read was Come & Get It) and I am officially becoming a fan! Reid is definitely becoming the queen of character driven novels for me. Her writing style is so unique, and while it usually takes me a while to get into her books, I eventually end up devouring them. I've especially been enjoying them on audio. While on the very surface level I would consider this a good read, it still manages to go much deeper and really hits on some real world issues that we face in our society (systemic racism, discrimination, etc) which are all very relevant to today's culture. I even loved that it went into "woke" culture and all the issues that can come with that like the white savior complex and doing everything in ones power to save their own image to come across as an "ally" and do good deeds for it only to be a self-serving motivation. Alix was such a complex character, who I absolutely loathed (in the best of ways) and got me thinking of the people I know in real life that act like her. Reid did such a good job at making her so infuriating. I also loved the character of Emira. She brought forth other real struggles outside of race that I really clung to, such as needing to rely on a job in order to get health insurance, and just the struggles one faces at that age - learning where we fit into society and trying to find our way into something that will make us happy, and what comes next. It's such a confusing and stressful time, and I really identified with Emira's own struggles with that. That being said, I do feel like there was something missing from the characters that would have given this book that next level of *oomph* that it needed. I think they needed just a touch more of depth, something to really make me fall in love with them and experience the story on a different level. But overall, I REALLY enjoyed this one and absolutely can not wait to read more from Kiely Reid!

### ⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic writing; Interesting start; Lackluster end
*by K***S on July 4, 2021*

SUCH A FUN AGE was our May book club pick and, at first, I was loving it. Kiley Reid broke the book up into four parts, which made it so easy for our club to read and discuss. Up until the last part, I thought Reese Witherspoon had picked another winner for us as she has yet to me down with her Reese’s Book Club picks. I kept wanting to read ahead; I was enthralled with the story; then bam! it changed directions and I just felt off. Was this Reid’s intention? Am I supposed to feel unsatisfied at the end? I’m not sure. But after such a powerful and intoxicating read, I would like to think not, which is why I felt disappointed. Reid is an exceptional writer. For a debut novel, I was thoroughly captivated by Emira, Alix, and Briar’s stories. Yes, I know Briar didn’t have a narrative, but through Emira and Alix, I felt she did. The complex story that she wove was beautiful piece of fiction yet the scary part is we are living it. It’s on our news. It’s part of our daily lives. It makes you think. And there are so many complexities within SUCH A FUN AGE in regards racial bias, privilege, and race that I can’t speak on due to me being a middle-class white woman, but the enlightening that Riley puts forth with a fictional story widens your vision. What ended up disappointing me is Emira loved her job as a nanny. It gave her life. She even spoke about it. She was constantly belittled for it. I agree, she had to get out of toxic situation, but to not take another nannying because it’s “babysitting” or “what kids do” irks me. I’m a nanny. I’m good at my job. It’s what I can do because of my health / my situation, but I also do it because I love it and it’s better than other opportunities that are available and I felt that way with Emira’s situation as well when she had to make some choices for a new job. It bothers when people belittle things others find joy in. And after that I lost the joy in this book. Will I read another book by Reid? Yes, I enjoyed her writing immensely. Will I recommend this one? No, but I won’t discourage you from reading because she’s an excellent writer. Plus, I would love to hear your thoughts on it because this book brought up wonderful debates in our book club - highly recommend it for a book club read! Content Warnings: racism, racial slurs, toxic relationships, police brutality, bullying, fatphobia, body shaming Follow me on instagram: @niftyreads

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