When Reid first applied for an MFA at age 28, she was rejected by all nine schools she applied to. White people argue about who’s the least racist.
Her friend mistakenly assumes she can spend $1,150 per month on rent, a couple hundred above her budget. Her white employer, Alix, privately rehearses how to talk about black culture. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīuoyed by a tight narrative structure, Such a Fun Age is a compulsive read whose dark humor comes at the expense of Emira, who often finds herself sitting in the wormy discomfort of a social faux pas. 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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