5/9/2023 0 Comments Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid![]() ![]() ![]() A passerby hits Record on his cell phone. But then a security guard accuses Emira of kidnapping the girl. When she’s called in for an emergency babysitting session, Emira finds herself strolling the aisles of a high-end grocery store after 11 p.m. Such a Fun Age follows Emira, an underemployed black 25-year-old who splits her time between babysitting for a wealthy white family and working at Philadelphia’s Green Party office. ![]() By Monday morning, the company’s publicity director was in Kim’s office, equally sleepless, eager to discuss. “I don’t expect you’ll get this note before Monday, but I wanted to send you this manuscript because I’ve just finished it, and my mind is racing.” Attached was the novel Such a Fun Age, from debut author Kiley Reid, who’d just finished her first year at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group. At 1:11 a.m., she sent an email to her colleagues at G.P. On a Friday evening in June of 2018, book editor Sally Kim’s only plans were to go to bed around 10 p.m. ![]()
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