Come and Get It

Kiley Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

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One of Good Housekeeping's Most Anticipated Books of the Year
One of BookBub's Best Winter Books

 

"A story of indiscretions and gray areas, power dynamics, and privilege that's wound as tight as a violin string." -- Good Housekeeping

 

"Beautifully told through the eyes of multiple characters, this intimate and revealing story . . . is not to be missed." -- BookBub

 

"[A] sharp, edgy social novel. . . Reid has the very same obsessions she gives her character Agatha, and the guilty pleasure of the book is the way she nails the characters' speech styles, Southern accents, and behavior and her unerring choice of products and other accoutrements to surround them with. . . . Reid is a genius of mimicry and social observation." -- Kirkus Reviews

 

"Reid returns after her smash hit Such a Fun Age with 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 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. . . . Reid has a ready and eager audience for her second novel, and the word is out." -- Booklist

 

"Reid offers an illuminating study of power, responsibility, and the bad choices we sometimes make, written in the fresh, bright language for which she's known. . . . What's most remarkable here is the grace and understanding the author shows her characters. . . . An emotionally intense exploration of power dynamics within relationships that doesn't settle for easy villains and victims." -- Library Journal

 

"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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy Place

"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

 

"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

Publisher Marketing:
From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

 

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 jeopardized 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 behavior--and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.