![]() ![]() ![]() Reid confidently addresses the gross and painful racism that manifests in our ostensibly pure personal relationships. Such a Fun Age contributes not to the field of blatant micro aggressions-though these feature prominently in Reid’s narrative and indeed catalyze the sequence of unfolding events-but in the most private of hemispheres, a place where discussions of racism are awkwardly eschewed. ![]() race relations and the (not-so) subtle racial profiling that Black Americans suffer on almost every stratum-from the grocery store to the workplace. Putnam’s Sons, 2019) excels in her believable and heart-wrenching deep-dive into U.S. The result was, as he himself would put it, “hideous.”įor all the reasons Zadok Allen never amounts to anything more than a paper-thin cypher, Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (G. Set aside the fact that the spoiled New Englander was an only child, set aside the racist dogma suffusing his plots, set aside his flagrant classism-“I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them”-the poor guy never quite figured out how to sound like normal people. Every aspiring novelist and storytelling cadet knows that the dialogue exchanges of the magniloquent vocabularian are a classroom example of what not to do. And yet literary history is riddled with examples-the ones who got away with it, the ones who didn’t, and the ones who, either way, remain in the literary canon. ![]()
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