And I gave some pages to a writer that I trust. REID: The funny thing is I'd started the book in another way with diving into both Alix and Emira. Tensions are raised, and Emira's rightly humiliated.įADEL: So why'd you start the book this way? But it quickly turns into something that another customer films. And then a customer and a security guard approach Emira as they accuse her of kidnapping the child.Īt first, the whole event seems a little bit silly to Emira because it seems a bit absurd that anyone would think that. So Emira and her friend Zara go to a high-end grocery store with the little girl, Briar. So Alix says, please take my child to the grocery store just for an hour. She's having a great time until she gets a call from her boss, Alix, who's had a family emergency.
Emira is a young black babysitter who is out with her friend at her friend's birthday party. Would you tell us what happens? It feels really familiar. So there's an event at an upscale grocery store that kicks off the book. Kiley Reid is the author of "Such A Fun Age." And she joins us now. And the relationship between the two women lays bare the insidious nature of entitlement and racism. Alix becomes obsessed with the younger, cooler Emira. She's a few years out of college and still figuring out her path in life. Alix is a blogger and public speaker who moves to Philadelphia for her husband's TV anchor job. In her debut novel, Kiley Reid explores the complicated relationship between a privileged white woman and the black babysitter she hires to care for her children.
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