Fun is the operative word in Such A Fun Age, Kiley Reid’s delectably discomfiting debut. The novel takes a thoroughly modern approach to the timeless upstairs-downstairs trope, centering on a black babysitter watching over a white influencer’s two-year-old daughter. From the opening scene, in which 25-year-old Emira Tucker is apprehended by a supermarket security guard who suspects the nanny of having kidnapped the toddler, the spring-loaded tale charts a battle of best intentions. Told from alternating points of view, the tale loop-de-loops through vibrant vignettes set in reggaeton nightclubs and Philadelphia farmers’ markets before landing firmly on one side of the maternal divide. Woven into the cinematic fabric (Insecure star Lena Waithe has optioned motion picture rights) is a trenchant examination of race and privilege in late-stage capitalism. A former babysitter herself, Reid fills the narrative with ripped-from-the-shift details about the trappings of bougie lifestyle and the slippery intimacies that form in the space between family members and a $16-a-hour employee. This page-turner goes down like comfort food but there’s no escaping the heartburn. – Lauren Mechling
If we must live in a surveillance state, might as well be under the attentive eye of Anna Weiner, whose memoir of a half a decade in Silicon Valley startup culture Uncanny Valley is equal parts enchanting and subversive. The Brooklyn native graduated into a recession and found a job at a New York literary agency that paid mostly in cultural capital. Seduced by tech’s lucre and ostensible utopianism, Wiener moved West, where life proved eerily comfortable for a hard-driving Millennial. Her account of living inside the Bay Area bubble reads like an episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley filtered through Renata Adler; Weiner is a trenchant cultural cartographer, mapping out a foggy, season-less world whose ruling class is fueled by illusions of grandeur, nootropics, and empty scripts: “People were saying nothing, and saying it all the time.” The book’s author does the very opposite, disrupting the disruptors at their own game. – Lauren Mechling
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