Sign-In
Cart
Los Mejores Años / Such a Fun Age
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9781644733639
Publisher: Suma
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: Spanish
Los mejores años es una novela debut sorprendente e impactante de una nueva y emocionante voz. Es una historia conmovedora y de gran corazón sobre la raza y el privilegio, ambientada alrededor de una joven niñera negra, su empleadora bien intencionada y una conexión sorprendente que amenaza con deshacerlas a ambas.
Alix Chamberlain es una mujer que siempre consigue lo que quiere y ha creado un negocio basado en su marca de confianza, mostrando a otras mujeres cómo hacer lo mismo. Así que se sorprende cuando su niñera, Emira Tucker, es confrontada mientras cuidaba al hijo pequeño de los Chamberlain una noche, caminando por los pasillos del supermercado de alta gama de su vecindario. El guardia de seguridad de la tienda, al ver a una joven mujer negra tarde con un niño blanco, acusa a Emira de secuestrar a Briar, de dos años. Una pequeña multitud se reúne, un espectador lo filma todo, y Emira está furiosa y humillada. Alix se propone hacer las cosas bien.
Pero Emira misma está perdida, sin dinero y desconfiada del deseo de Alix de ayudarla. A los veinticinco años, está a punto de perder su seguro de salud y no sabe qué hacer con su vida. Cuando el video de Emira saca a alguien del pasado de Alix, ambas mujeres se encuentran en un curso de colisión que trastornará todo lo que creen saber sobre sí mismas y entre sí.
Con empatía y un agudo comentario social, Los mejores años explora la pegajosidad de las relaciones transaccionales, lo que significa convertir a alguien en familia y la complicada realidad de ser un adulto.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK
The most provocative page-turner of the year. --Entertainment Weekly
I urge you to read Such a Fun Age. --NPR
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.
But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
Also from
Reid, Kiley
Also in
Literary Fiction
The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race
Hemingway, Ernest
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paperback