Alix’s friends connect her to people that would further her career. Emira’s friend Zara often spots her for money when Emira is low. But I think there are other transactions taking place as well. Q: What are the transactional relationships in your novel?Ī: There are surface transactional relationships in the novel, such as Emira the babysitter and Alix the mother. I also think it’s important for the reader to see why the groups of friends have gravitated toward one another, and what they gain from each other - whether it’s support or career networking, or approval that they’re doing the right thing. How did you balance them with each main protagonist?Ī: I wanted to have two groups of loyal and wonderful friends, who also often give terrible advice, as friends can do, and struggle to see from a different perspective than their own. Q: Friends play an important supporting role to the two main characters. My advice to change the way systemic race and class issues affect low-income black and brown people would be to support actual policy change that involves communities, rather than just one individual. Q: What’s your advice to start a conversation regarding race and class?Ī: I think we’re always talking about race and class! When we use terms like “bad schools” or “classy” or “sketchy,” race and class are embedded into our interpretation. When it comes to writing about race, class and social media, my goal is to write about the truth of circumstances and accurately show how these three facets have become intertwined. Q: What’s your intention with writing about race, class dynamics and social media?Ī: My first intention as a writer is always to write a gripping, enjoyable story. From there the story turns into a comedy of good intentions as multiple characters, both black and white, attempt to prove their allegiance to morality and goodness.Įmira and Alix differ in many ways, but I think their greatest difference is that they come from very different class backgrounds that inform their ways of thinking of others and themselves. Alix sets out to right the night’s wrongs. One night, Emira is accused of stealing Briar at a high-end grocery store. But she does love babysitting Briar Chamberlain, the 3-year-old daughter of entrepreneur and recent Philadelphia transplant Alix Chamberlain. She’s a low-income African-American woman who works part-time as a babysitter, part-time as a typist, and has no idea what she should do with her life. A: Emira Tucker is a 25-year-old graduate from Temple University.
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