Such a Fun Age by Kiley ReidMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a wonderfully rich book full of terrifically challenging situations and misunderstandings. The basic plot is a 25-year-old AA woman is hired to work as a sitter for an upper-middle class family in Pennsylvania. One night an incident occurs that the family feels would be too traumatic for their 3-year-old daughter to witness so they unexpectedly call their sitter in on her night off. She had been at a friend's birthday party and not dressed in her usual childcare attire, but she leaves the party and goes to their aid. She takes the child down the road to a upper crust grocer where a female customer alerts the security guard that a young girl might not be with her mother, thinking that this woman has taken the child. For some reason (racism), these folks believe that she is not being honest about why she has this little girl with her and detain her until the father arrives. This is the backdrop for the various situations woven through the story. This is an interesting character study regarding many aspects of social and racial interactions among others.
There were a few issues with the plot that seemed less than plausible which I found slightly distracting. Overall, this was really great and highly recommended.
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