"This fresh, thought-provoking coming-of-age college novel tingles with truths about money and desire as a young residential assistant becomes entangled with a professor and students in her care."
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.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational BestsellerA Good Morning America Book Club PickAn Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads PickAcclaimed author Kiley Reid's fresh and provocative story about desire, consumption, and bad behavior.It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas, and Millie Cousins-a super-senior resident assistant at Belgrade Dormitory-just wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a writer and visiting professor itching for her next big topic, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity for them to help each other further their own interests, Millie naturally jumps at the chance.But Millie's starry-eyed hustle quickly becomes jeopardized by a lonely transfer student, unruly residents, and illicit intrigue.
Come and Get It features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Social issues, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Star Books, Recommendations
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Come and Get It was written by Kiley Reid and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Come and Get It has 386 pages
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