However, Alix is pushed into changing this after her husband makes an on-air faux pas by making a racist comment. They’re two very different people and they know very little about each other. She works 2 jobs and is only just surviving. Emira is 25 and about to be taken off her parents’ health insurance. She also helps young people write cover letters and college applications. She writes letters to companies asking for free products and reviewing them on her blog. Alix was brought up with money and hasn’t really had to worry about much. The kind of liberals who claim race isn’t an issue but fetishise it to worrying degrees.Įmira and Alix come from very different backgrounds. Or those white people who surround themselves exclusively with black friends and only date people of a certain race because it makes them feel good about themselves. Those white saviours who believe that need to help black people and celebrate having more than one minority at a dinner party. This is a cutting and funny look at accidental liberal racism. Instead, it delves deeper and looks at those white liberals who kid themselves that they’re helping but are actually very misguided. Such a Fun Age isn’t a book about obvious racism that exists all around up. This novel could easily have drawn on those viral videos but it went deeper than that. With police officers or authority figures unnecessarily stopping young black people for crimes they didn’t commit. We’ve seen this kind of thing going viral. I thought I knew where this novel was going but it kind of pulled the rug out from under me. While at a nearby grocery store, the babysitter is stopped and accused of kidnapping her young charge. One evening, Emira is asked to take their three-year-old daughter Briar out. He is a local news anchor in Philadelphia and she is a lifestyle blogger who writes letters. Her employees are Peter and Alix Chamberlain. Emira Tucker works as a babysitter for a rich white family. I was drawn into Such a Fun Age as soon as I read the concept.

Such a fun age review