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SUMMARY:Racial Justice Working Group Book Discussion: Such a Fun Age
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to join with the Oseh Racial Justice Workin
 g Group as we discuss Kiley Reid's book "Such a Fun Age". Topics for discu
 ssion may include the relationships between and among the characters\, our
  own and society's assumptions about race\, and who decides what is "publi
 c".\n\nJoin via Zoom\n\nMeeting ID: 956 9452 3160\n\nDescription of the bo
 ok:\n\nA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voic
 e\, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race an
 d privilege\, set around a young black babysitter\, her well-intentioned e
 mployer\, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.\n\
 nAlix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living
 \, with her confidence-driven brand\, showing other women how to do the sa
 me. So she is shocked when her babysitter\, Emira Tucker\, is confronted w
 hile watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night\, walking the aisles of 
 their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard\, seeing a yo
 ung black woman out late with a white child\, accuses Emira of kidnapping 
 two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers\, a bystander films everything\,
  and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.\
 n\nBut Emira herself is aimless\, broke\, and wary of Alix's desire to hel
 p. At twenty-five\, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no i
 dea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone fro
 m Alix's past\, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upe
 nd everything they think they know about themselves\, and each other.\n\nW
 ith empathy and piercing social commentary\, Such a Fun Age explores the
  stickiness of transactional relationships\, what it means to make someone
  "family\," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a seari
 ng debut for our times.
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