It might refer to her charge, Briar, a white three-year-old whose imagination and speech patterns are so charmingly true to a particular kind of kid that she's both instantly recognizable and entirely her own person. The title's "fun age" might refer to one of the two main characters, Emira Tucker, a 25-year-old black woman who keenly feels that working part-time as a babysitter and part-time as a typist doesn't count as true adulting. The title of Kiley Reid's debut, Such a Fun Age, works on so many levels it makes me giddy - and, what's better, the title's plurality of meaning is echoed all over the place within the novel, where both plot and dialogue are layered with history, prejudice, expectations, and assumptions. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Such a Fun Age Author Kiley Reid
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