The Best Years

When Emira Tucker, a young Black woman, is racially profiled by a supermarket security guard as a potential abductor of Briar, the two-year-old white child she is with and for whom she is a babysitter, the incident precipitates a surprising chain of events.

Alix Chamberlain, the baby's mother, a well-intentioned feminist blogger, decides to make amends and compensate Emira, approaching her as closely as she can. Emira, however, at a turbulent stage of entering adulthood, caught between professional and romantic indecision and pressing financial vulnerabilities, hesitates to accept Alix's advances.

When an unexpected connection between the women is dramatically revealed, everything they think about each other, everything they think about themselves, the worlds they inhabit, and the different dynamics of social privilege will be painfully called into question.

A book about the meaning of family and what it means to grow up and be an adult. Nothing in The Best Years is what it seems.