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Subtle, tense, razor-sharp-incisive, and super-stylish, Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It is nigh impossible to put down. Multi-layered and deceptively easy to read (it’s packed with astute insights into human nature and money-driven desires of our age), Reid has a real knack for cutting to the core of her young female characters, and for exploring complexities around coming of age and relationships.
Millie is a senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas. As such, she’s employed to organise activities and check on student welfare. Driven by a desire to graduate, find a decent job and buy her own house, she jumps at the chance to earn a little extra money when Agatha, a visiting professor and writer, appears on campus.
Agatha is researching her next book on the topic of weddings, but that quickly morphs into researching attitudes to money when Millie sets up interviews with a few female students in her care. Agatha finds herself “completely enraptured by these young women, their relationship to money, what they said and how they said it.”
Incredibly intense, Come and Get It reveals the complications of young adulthood — coming-of-age confusion, co-living issues, conflicting fantasies about divergent future life scenarios — along with ethical issues, betrayals of trust, and blurring and breaking boundaries.
Reviewed by Joanne OwenJoanne Owen’s lifelong love of reading and writing began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, and very much wished that witches (and Mrs Pepperpot) were real.
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Come and Get It Synopsis
Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for.
Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She's slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance.
Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie's dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors.
As the two women form an unlikely relationship, they soon become embroiled in a world of roommate theatrics, vengeful pranks and illicit intrigue - and are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.
Sharp, intimate and provocative, Come and Get It takes a lens to our money-obsessed society in a tension-filled story about desire, consumption and bad behaviour.
About This Edition
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9781526632562 |
| Publication date: |
8th May 2025 |
| Author: |
Kiley Reid |
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Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
386 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Kiley Reid Press Reviews
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
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
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 - Publisher's 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
About Kiley Reid
KILEY REID earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught creative writing with a focus on race and class. Such a Fun Age, her first book, was both a Sunday Times and a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She lives in Philadelphia. kileyreid.com | @kileyreid
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