
Feminist Book Club
Thu, Feb 22
|Leesburg
Feminism is for everyone! Come investigate feminist themes in fiction, nonfiction, and even story books with your co-hosts, Jess and Tammy.


Time & Location
Feb 22, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Leesburg, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white…