Very enjoyable novel that handles persistent racism with a light touch. A black babysitter working for a self-made white influencer-celebrity-entrepreneur type meets a woke white guy who films a racist incident in a tony grocery store when a rent-a-cop confronts the babysitter, assuming she has no business with her three-year-old white charge. Everything else hinges on that moment and the coincidence (okay, major ask for readers to buy it but hey, it's fiction) that the employer and the white guy had a major breakup in high school that lingers. returnreturnThings I found interesting: parent-child-child care worker relationships. The mom is very much a mom but she's also rich and busy and has a new baby and doesn't realize she's neglecting her precocious and eccentric three-year-old (who bonds deeply with the babysitter). The vacuousness of the celebrity that makes the employer wealthy. The mixture of charm and obnoxiousness that is so frequently part of male white self-aggrandizing wokeness. The power and limits of female friendships. The fact everyone is so sure they know exactly what the babysitter should be doing with her life when really she just wants time to figure it out for herself - though it puts her on the constant edge of financial disaster and makes her feel unfairly ashamed of herself. The role viral social media plays in lives as a kind of spectator team sport.returnreturnI'm happy to have novels that are fun to read and yet help unpack everyday racism in such an accessible way. I know some reviewers say "I didn't like the characters" but I liked the way the author gave all of them such a rich mix of being like folks we know who have some endearing qualities and mostly good intentions while also being deeply clueless and selfish. Like we are.