The societal metaphors were almost tangible. I like how most of the focus was on Emira. There also aren’t too many supporting characters and that also makes the story pretty easy to follow. There are only three main characters to follow, so it doesn’t get confusing.

This is a story where you want to go in knowing less. It sparks the events for the rest of the story and it’s best not to say too much. We get sucked into the story pretty early on and the scene involving explicit racism is in the first chapter. Trigger Warnings: Racism, prejudice, explicit sex scene, death of a grandparent, racial slur The Good There, the security guard accuses Emira of kidnapping Briar, and Alix’s efforts to right the situation turn out to be good intentions selfishly mismanaged. In the midst of a family crisis one late evening, white blogger Alix Chamberlain calls her African American babysitter, Emira, asking her to take toddler Briar to the local market for distraction. I’m really looking forward to that live show because I really want to dissect this story with other readers and I think it will bring forth some great discussions. They’ll be having a live show at the end of the month to discuss it.

Such a Fun Age is also the Unfriendly Black Hotties book club pick for August. If you want to learn more about some controversy surrounding The Reading Rush and how it negatively affected the Black reading community, I’d highly recommend checking out this video. Hey y’all, so Such a Fun Age was the book club pick for The Reading Rush and I ended up loving it.

Such a fun age book review