A heated exchange with the market’s security guard ensues-all recorded on video-and the woman is allowed to leave only after the child’s father arrives to explain the situation. As the book begins, there’s certainly not much to laugh about: A young black woman in an upscale grocery store in Philadelphia is accused of kidnapping the white toddler she’s babysitting. “A comedy of good intentions” might seem an improbable description of a book that lays bare issues of race and class in contemporary America-but that’s how Kiley Reid aptly sums up her debut novel, Such a Fun Age.
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