Such a Fun Age

Such a page-turner!

When Emira, a 25-year-old black woman, is accused of kidnapping her young, white babysitting charge by a grocery store rent-a-cop, her life is on an unknown course. Working two part time jobs to barely make ends meet and soon to be kicked off her parents' health insurance, everyone around her seems to have ideas of how her life should be better than it is--especially Alix, the woman who hired her to babysit for her, and Kelley, a 30-something white man who witnessed the grocery store incident and eventually became Emira's boyfriend. Meanwhile, while everyone else is figuring out what's best for Emira behind her back, she is practically raising Alix's daughter--a precocious young girl who is hurt by her mother's neglect. Definitely would recommend.