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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid5/30/2023 Alix hires Emira Tucker, a 25-year-old African-American college graduate, as a babysitter to care for her three-year-old daughter Briar. Alix's family has moved from New York City to her hometown of Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a television anchor, and her career is stalling as she raises two children and attempts to write her first book. The novel received favorable reviews and was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.Īlix Chamberlain is a wealthy blogger and public speaker in her early thirties who has built a brand known as "LetHer Speak" around the practice of writing old-fashioned letters to businesses, often in exchange for free product samples, and encouraging women to be assertive. It tells the story of a young Black woman who is wrongly accused of kidnapping while babysitting a white child, and the events that follow the incident. It is her debut novel and was published by G. Such a Fun Age is a 2019 novel by American author Kiley Reid.
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