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Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: May 31, 2023

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Jan 13, 2024 Steph rated it liked it

Shelves: poc-characters, poc-author, ebook-audio, first-read-in-2024, multiple-viewpoints

strikes a really lovely balance between readable juicy drama and complex cultural criticism.

the themes are fundamentally political, as the book opens with emira, a black 25-year-old sitter for a wealthy white family, being accused of kidnapping the toddler she cares for. misguided alix, the family's mom, becomes fixated on emira. the story teeters on the edge of 2016, with alix one of many non-intersectional white feminists campaigning for hillary clinton. there's a lot of intense stuff here abo ...more

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Feb 06, 2020 Tanya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I really enjoyed this book and wanted to give it 5-stars. As I stepped back a bit I had to drop a star because of the character of Emira. Maybe there are 25-year olds that are directionless like her, but I just didn't get that she doesn't have some kind of passion or interest in a career by that time of life. I don't like Alix's character, but she had more going on at that age. Yes, she has more privilege, but I don't know. Maybe if I knew more of Emira's backstory I would understand.
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Mar 07, 2020 Hilary rated it really liked it

Excellent! She’s a master with dialogue. Read this.

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Aug 27, 2020 Charlotte rated it really liked it

This was really good but the ending was kind of meh.

I also really didn’t understand why Briar only ever said random things? Kids do say some strange things that don’t make sense but a 3 year old with a good vocabulary like Briar would be talking sense more often than not. It felt really forced.

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