From the author of the lauded Such a Fun Age comes another gimlet eyed satire of twenty-first-century America as an ambitious university student accepts a dubious offer from a visiting professor.
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour - and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526632548
Number of pages: 400
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
Multi-layered and complex relationships between seriously flawed characters once again take centre stage as its narrative smartly delves into racism, social and economic status, and university campus politics in the 21st century. A perfect read for anyone who loved Netflix’s brilliant The Chair and Jean Hanff Korelitz’s Admission - Stylist
Kiley Reid is an expert at teasing apart the messy, complicated, nuanced layers of social dynamics, and has a rare gift for making the unknown feel intimately familiar and the familiar feel brand new. In Come and Get It, she's crafted a story that moves with the momentum and inevitability of a snowball rolling down a mountain. I couldn't put it down, and I didn’t want to either’ - Emily Henry, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of HAPPY PLACE
Kiley Reid’s books make me feel lucky to be a reader. I’m in awe – Come and Get It is a page-turning pleasure – stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart. I can’t believe that one book can be this clever, cool and this much fun to read - Daisy Buchanan, author of INSATIABLE
Reading a Kiley Reid novel is like watching a docuseries designed exactly for you. She captures those exceedingly awkward and real human interactions with such precision and specificity that you’re fully invested by the first page. Come and Get It is genius. It’s perfect - Liz Moore, author of LONG BRIGHT RIVER
Wonderfully immersive, propulsive, and beautifully paced. On page one, there is a story that is already happening, and you’re plunged right into the novel’s world, already up and running, full of real people, and complicated – that is, substantive – as all hell. Just great - Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THIS OTHER EDEN and TINKERS
A wonderfully written and intimate portrayal of entwined lives on campus. Quiet and intense all at the same time, it was a joy to read - Jessica George, author of MAAME
Come and Get It is an engrossing novel full of intimately portrayed characters and the seemingly innocuous choices that lead to life-altering mistakes - Elizabeth Acevedo, author of FAMILY LORE and THE POET X
If you loved the smash hit Such a Fun Age, don't sleep on Reid's newest ... This is a story of indiscretions and gray areas, power dynamics and privilege that's wound as tight as a violin string. Just don't forget to breathe while you're reading (go ahead and thank us later) - Good Housekeeping
Kiley Reid returns with another incisive novel everyone will be talking about … A riveting and fascinating tale - Town & Country, Best Books of Winter
A sardonic and no-holds-barred comedy of manners ... Reid is a keen observer – every page sparkles with sharp analysis of her characters. This blistering send-up of academia is interlaced with piercing moral clarity - Publishers Weekly, starred review
A illuminating study of power, responsibility, and the bad choices we sometimes make, written in the fresh, bright language for which she’s known - Library Journal
A deft exploration of how microaggressions can lead to macro consequences, Reid’s second outing will appeal to readers who enjoy slow-burn, character-driven novels - Booklist
Unlike, it seems, most of the rest of the reading world, I haven’t read Kiley Reid’s first novel, Such A Fun Age, but had heard enough that I thought I might like her follow-up. I had two very late nights reading Come... More
After 'Such a fun Age', I honestly would read Kiley Reid's shopping list. Her observations are sharp as a knife and her prose is very readable.
And this new novel doesn't disappoint, it's a...
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Hmmm hmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think there's a good book in there somewhere, but ultimately I was left with a feeling of mild meh in the end f it.
It took a good while to get a sense of direction. The...
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