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  • Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
  • Written by: Kiley Reid
  • Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
  • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (686 ratings)

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Such a Fun Age

Written by: Kiley Reid
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
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Publisher's Summary

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 best seller

A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book 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 binge-worthy and bighearted 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 25, 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.

©2019 Kiley Reid (P)2019 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

Winner of the African American Literary Award

Finalist for:

The New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award

The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

The NAACP Image Award

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award

A Book Club Pick:

Vox • Marie Claire #ReadWithMC Buzzfeed Book Girl Magic Well-Read Black Girl WNYC Get Lit With All of It Nerdette  

“Reid constructs a plot so beautifully intricate and real and fascinating that readers will forget it’s also full of tough questions about race, class and identity….With this entertaining novel, Reid subverts our notions of what it means to write about race and class in America, not to mention what it means to write about love. In short, it’s a great way to kick off 2020.”—Washington Post

“A complex, layered page-turner…This is a book that will read, I suspect, quite differently to various audiences—funny to some, deeply uncomfortable and shamefully recognizable to others—but whatever the experience,....Let its empathetic approach to even the ickiest characters stir you, allow yourself to share Emira’s millennial anxieties about adulting, take joy in the innocence of Briar’s still-unmarred personhood, and rejoice that Kiley Reid is only just getting started.”—NPR

“[Such a Fun Age] nestl[es] a nuanced take on racial biases and class divides into a page-turning saga of betrayals, twists, and perfectly awkward relationships....The novel feels bound for book-club glory, due to its sheer readability. The dialogue crackles with naturalistic flair. The plotting is breezy and surprising. Plus, while Reid’s feel for both the funny and the political is undeniable, she imbues her flawed heroes with real heart.”Entertainment Weekly

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Annoying narration

I disliked the voice and performance of narrator so much that I could not get through this book.

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Yikes

This book was bad. Why is it so popular?

Stereotypical black people. Stereotypical white people. Mediocre writing. Flat characters. Storyline that goes nowhere. ????? Just a no. Skip this book. I am shocked it has been so popular. I wonder who was paid off.

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Adored this book!

Perfect. Both the storytelling and narration left nothing to be desired. I could not have loved this book more! Complex issues, but engaging and funny and easy to listen to.

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Totally enjoyable!

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book and pretty much had to listen until it was over. The audible equivalent of “I couldn’t put it down”
The characters were so interesting- it took me awhile to decide if I liked them or not, except for Amira- who was totally likeable from the beginning. Highly recommend this one and can’t wait for more stories from this author!

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intriguing plot and characters

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.

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Such a great listen! Compelling book

I loved the performance, the voices and the story.
This book is a realistic glance at race and relationships but ultimately about characters and people and love.

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Excellent!

Characters, story and performance were so well done. A coming of age story meets the story of a woman striving in her 30s, with plenty at stake for all.

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Excellent Read!

This book was absolutely fantastic. It navigated some very difficult topics seamlessly and in a very impactful manner.

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Super annoying, pretentious pronunciation of Alice

Could not stand listening even 1 more minute after hearing Alix pronounced 'Alique' over and over and over again. WTH? Why can't Alix just be Alix? She is American , not French!! So pretentious and totally spoiled the book as this was so annoying and distracting.

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fantastic

loved the story and the narration. race is complicated and this does it justice. picked it up as per Oprah rexommendation and I recommend it too!

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