6/28/2023 0 Comments Kiley reid author![]() It opens with a set piece when Emira, who is partying with a group of girlfriends, is summoned by her employers late one night to take their small daughter off their hands while they sort out a domestic incident. ![]() Such a Fun Age tells the story of Emira, a young black woman who works as a nanny for a white family. “And she was saying that she’s used my novel to point out to editors that if this person is doing humour that is literary fiction, why can’t I do it too? The premise that literary fiction has to be a drag – it’s just so silly.” When we talk, she’s just out of a virtual session with another writer. ![]() But the thing that pleases her most, a year on, is the growing sense that the book is becoming a bit of gamechanger. Yes, in some ways, it’s been really wild,” says Reid from Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband, and where the novel is also set. ![]()
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