Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

 

How do you explore the subtleties of race relations while delivering a compulsively readable novel with an A+ protagonist? You learn from Kiley Reid, that’s how. The central thesis of the story centers on a plot point that felt like such a remarkable coincidence that I couldn’t set it aside enough. Yet, this is sheer dynamite packaged in a fun story. 26, the age when she’ll have to have her own health insurance, looms large for Emira Tucker. Yet it is her Blackness that will be the target for people who think they know how to do right by her.