After the IncidentĪfter this incident, Alix felt bad and tried to assuage her guilt by getting to know Emira. He convinced her to email it to herself before deleting it from his phone. She was not interested in going to court with the guard or the store.

Once outside the store, Emira asked the guy, Kelly, to erase the video on his phone. They were doing some … I don’t even know … some booty dancing or whatnot? And I thought, okay, this doesn’t feel right. Emira called Peter, who jogged to the store to explain the situation to the security guard. The security guard would not let Emira leave until he spoke to one of Briar’s parents. The other customer, a white male, recorded the altercation. The White female customer came back to the aisle she’d alerted the guard, seemingly worried about the child. He started questioning Emira, accusing her of taking the child, and wanting to speak to the child’s parents. Zara left a few minutes later before a security officer approached Emira and Briar. A white woman and a white man who came through the aisle both seemed charmed by the dancing. It was after 10 pm and the store was quiet with few other customers. Alix wanted to get Briar out of the house when the police came, and Briar’s fascination at the time was nuts (and smelling tea bags).īriar, Zara, and Emira walked around the store, and then Zara started playing some music for them to dance, in the freezer section. The baby, Catherine, stayed home while Emira took the almost three years old, Briar, to Market Depot, the nearby grocery store. He hadn’t commented on the white teens, but after seeing an invitation from a black boy, he’d expressed his hope that the black boy’s date had asked her father before saying yes to the invitation.Īfter calculating what she would get paid for the late-night babysitting, double-time along with cab fees, Emira went to the Chamberlain house with her friend Zara. Alix’s husband, Peter, upon seeing two extravagant invitations to prom, made a sexist/racist remark. We later find out what motivated this incident. It’s a babysitting emergency because some kids threw eggs at Alix’s house and broke a window. She has had a few drinks when she gets a call from Alix. That incident changes the relationship between Emira and the family and reveals the power dynamics at play.Īt the beginning of the book, we meet Emira Tucker having fun at a birthday celebration for one of her close friends. While babysitting for a wealthy white family one night, Emira is accused of kidnapping the child.

It explores themes of identity, friendship, class, privilege, and relationships through the perspective of a young black woman, Emira. Such a Fun Age is a contemporary fiction by Kiley Reid.

Such fun age