Wednesday reading meme-ish

What's this, I haven't read a lot of books this year but I did finish a good one this morning. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid is a page-turning novel about a black woman in her twenties who's employed a a babysitter for a white mom in her thirties in Philadelphia. The chapters alternate between the two women's POVs and to me it felt like it was very well done and empathetic toward both of them despite big differences and lack of understanding between the characters. I found this to be engrossing and funny and touching. It had a light touch and a lot of focus on female friendships and feelings.

At times when reading I felt a great sense of dread, I was afraid terrible things would happen, so what the heck I am going to let you know if you click though the cut... ( spoilers? )

I enjoyed this book and hope Kiley Reid continues to write and publish.

Two other books I've enjoyed in recent years that look at similar themes of parenting and class and race are Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (did not care for the Hulu adaptation alas) and That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam. Celeste Ng has another book available on Overdrive from my library so maybe I'll read that soon. Rumaan Alam has a new book that just came out last week, so I guess I'll go see if my library has that.

I did just check out The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel for the second time so I'll try reading that first. I couldn't get into it when I tried a few months ago but I did like it so who knows.

ETA I'm so out of practice making Dreamwidth posts it took me like five times to code the cut correctly, how embarrassing.