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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. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Récits initiatiques Baby-sitter

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Really wonderful story and performance. I am very picky about the narrator and I think Nicole Lewis did an incredible job. Worth a listen.

Wonderful

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Was riveted from part 2 to 3... then audibly said: "No Way..." at the beginning of part three. Definitely binged the last 3 hours of this book. Really great story, the narrated is wonderful, and the Three-Year Old Speak is perfect!

Couldn't stop!

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good narration of different characters. Liked the different social viewpoints. would read others by same author

good age

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Such A Fun Age

I really enjoyed this E book, I had a hard time leaving it even for a short time.

good reads

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the story was captivating and the narrator was so entertaining and perfectly captured the essence of the characters with her changes in tone and measure.

intriguing plot and characters

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