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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 Bookpagelonglisted For The 2020 Booker Prizean Instant New York Times Bestsellera Reese'S Book Club Pick'The Most Provocative Pageturner 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 Pageturning And Bighearted Story About Race And Privilege, Set Around A Young Black Babysitter, Her Wellintentioned 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 Confidencedriven 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 Highend Supermarket. The Store'S Security Guard, Seeing A Young Black Woman Out Late With A White Child, Accuses Emira Of Kidnapping Twoyearold 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 Twentyfive, 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.