Book Review Such A Fun Age

Three words come to mind when speaking of reid s sparky debut.

Book review such a fun age. Such a fun age is also the unfriendly black hotties book club pick for august. It s extremely readable and plot forward while tackling things like. I have been holding fire on reviewing this book for a few weeks because it is a a difficult problematic novel in my view.

Such a fun age is a much hyped debut novel from kiley reid and it s definitely going to be the book club book of 2020. Not because it was an unpleasant read though it does depict many unpleasant moments but because the story so often wound up my feelings to such a high point of second hand embarrassment that it felt like a huge weight slid down my shoulders when it was all over. Such a fun age is a millennial mediation on race and class relations in the us set to the backdrop of barack s america in 2015 and during the rise of the dissemination of recorded incidents of racism.

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Such a fun age by kiley reid charming authentic entertaining money class and race are incisively observed in a razor sharp debut confidence and verve. Such a fun age by kylie reid the title of kiley reid s debut novel works on multiple levels it can refer to chronological age or political era and those different meanings echo. A novel which is almost good almost dealt with its topic and theme effectively is so.

Something akin to relief gusted through my room like a warm front when i finished it. I need you to be mad that it just like happens. Review a professional critic s assessment of a service product performance or artistic or literary work in such a fun age kiley reid takes aim at race and class in america by.

Hey y all so such a fun age was the book club pick for the reading rush and i ended up loving it.