Such a Fun Age
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Kiley Reid
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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 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
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Kritikerstimmen
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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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- Sam
- 06.09.2022
Perfekt
Everything that was written is so beautiful! Race and racism are immensely complex issues and the book handles them really well. What counts as a racist remark, am I covertly racist when I prefer something or someone's company, how can I avoid positive racism, is diversity almost always just a checklist for people in power to feel less racist? I'll be haunted by these questions but I'll also be more mindful of my actions, words, company and taking decisions on someone else's behalf. As a brown woman, a general note to everyone who wants to not be racist or come off as one, or being like Alix and Kelly from the book, ask. Ask how that person feels in that given moment, ask THEM if they need help, don't assume and don't treat a person from minority as your own property that needs to be protected. Always ask first 😊
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- Sandra
- 19.05.2023
Good story
Such a fun story to listen to. I have enjoyed it. I do recommend it.
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- Janet ann allport
- 16.10.2020
Addictive indeed
I couldn't stop listening.
Well written and perceptive character descriptions, you have to go on reading to find out if each person fullfils their goals. Elmira's girlfriends sound like a fun crowd. Well worth it.
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- Sophie S.
- 11.03.2020
Tackles so many problems that are overdue talking about
Really liked this book! It reminded me a lot of Queenie by Carty-Williams so whoever liked it will love this
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- blah
- 31.01.2020
Lovely
The performance was alright, I would have preferred the characters' voices and intonation to be a little different, but it is alright as it is too.
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I would've wished for a different ending. It felt flat as if the writer didn't really had time to finished it. It just feels weird for me atm. maybe by the next reading it will feel better, but I thought that it wasn't a fear ending.
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- Tzeitel
- 03.03.2024
Good insight to racism
The Story is really good, you want to know how it ends. The end is sad but also realistic and good. The story gives good insights on how different and covered racism can appear.
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- Astrid Montecillo
- 23.07.2024
What a drag
Maybe the book is better if I read it on my own.. I found the performance of this book so horrible. The reader made every character sound annoying, annoyed and shrill.. I've been hopping in and out of listening to this book since months until I finally had to make the decision to just stop and not continue on because listening to this performance makes me angry.
I can't even say if I like the storyline ... I need a break and then I will have to borrow it at my library and read it myself to figure this out.
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- Jasmin Frey
- 07.05.2023
Very US-American
The premise of the story is interesting and the speaker is nice enough, but most of the characters have the same voice. It's difficult to tell everyone apart and we learn about the characters at a very slow pace.
The characters' interactions all seem very superficial and fake, what people act like and say and how we're told they feel don't match up.
I feel like I am having trouble understanding this story because it is very US American, it feels outlandish and strange and tedious to het through.
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- Kevser Gencalp
- 29.01.2020
mediocre
the narrator's performance was good. The book was easy to listen. However, there wasn't much to the plot itself. I found it rather flat: especially the reveal of the background story felt rushed and anticlimactic.
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2 Leute fanden das hilfreich