![]() ![]() The Bromance Book Club opens with Gavin Scott, major league baseball player, in the middle of some serious conflict with his wife, Tessa. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano What further unravels is a narrative rife with empathy as it explores race, privilege, and what happens when we do the right things for the wrong reasons. Alix Chamberlain, a successful business owner and Briar’s mother, takes this as an opportunity to both help and try to grow closer to Emira - but Emira is dubious of Alix's motivations. ![]() The entire event escalates (including another patron of the grocery store videotaping the entire exchange) and the security guard will only let Emira leave after Briar’s dad shows up to defend her. One night while Emira is out with Briar at a local grocery store, a security guard, after being alerted by a concerned patron, stops Emira, a young black woman, and accuses her of having kidnapped Briar, a white child. Such a Fun Age takes us into the world of Emira, a 25-year-old babysitter of a precocious and lovable toddler named Briar Chamberlain. ![]() This book technically doesn’t come out until the last day of 2019, but it's one to preemptively add to your end-of-year list. ![]()
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