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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. My guest today is the wonderful Kylie Reed. She is a writer, she earned

her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop where she won a Fellowship Award and she has taught many a

creative writing workshop for

undergraduates with a focus on race and class.

Kiley has written a number of novels and short stories but her most recent novel

Such a Fun Age, it's called, is a huge book for 2020.

It's a story about two women, Emira and Alex. Emira is a young black babysitter,

currently juggling two jobs to pay the rent and

Alex is a wealthy white woman. She's a blogger and social media celebrity who on the surface

seems like everything's fine but underneath has a lot of doubts and insecurities.

It's a seriously fantastic book and it talks so well about race and the messy dynamics of privilege. It's had so much

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