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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
I randomly picked this up because the public library had unlimited e-copies for the month of June. At first I really liked it. The white woman and her intense desire to make her black babysitter her friend and family was cringeworthy, but often very funny. I thought it was an easy way to see the subtlety of microagressions and differences in culture. But as the story went on the white woman got more and more ridiculous. Not that I don't think white women are capable of what this character did, but she was such an insane character by the end that the impact wasn't as strong. It was almost as if the author wasn't quite sure how to end the story with the same nuance she started it with and just went for the farcical instead. Still, easy read, and nice to read about a black experience that wasn't slavery, wasn't all doom and gloom, but instead a nice dose of that black girl magic!