Kiley Reid, SUCH A FUN AGE
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Kiley Reid is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is a Reese Witherspoon and Well-Read Black Girl book club pick. It's a powerful comedy of errors plot line that centers on millennial post-graduate babysitter Emira Tucker and explores race, privilege, and complex relationships through intricately crafted characters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. |
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| 1:01.3 | It's also on a link in my website to Zibi Owens.com. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm here today with Kylie Reid, who's the author of Such a Fun Age. |
| 1:10.0 | She's a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her short stories have |
| 1:11.3 | been featured in Plow Shares, December, New South, and Lumina. She currently lives in Philadelphia, |
| 1:16.8 | PA. So welcome, Kylie. Thanks for coming on moms and have time to read books. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:21.5 | Of course. So can you please tell listeners what such a fun age is about? Absolutely. So such a fun |
| 1:26.5 | age starts in 2015. And on Saturday |
| 1:28.9 | night in September, we meet Amira Tucker. Amira is a 25-year-old African-American babysitter. She's at |
| 1:36.2 | that postgraduate part in her life where she doesn't know what she wants to do. She kind of eats |
| 1:41.5 | the same crock pot meal four nights a week, but she does know she loves |
| 1:45.6 | babysitting Breyer Chamberlain. Breyer is a chatty and odd three-year-old girl. So Amira's at a party |
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