Come and Get It

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The author of bestselling phenomenon Such a Fun Age returns with a fresh and provocative campus novel about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour

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.
 

Review

A brilliant book ... Really interesting, looks at the lengths we'll go to get money, and how it informs our decision making and also our relationships. It's a really good read -- Fearne Cotton, Happy Place Book Club

An utter joy ― Sunday Times

A deliciously chewy, politically charged novel ... The kind of book I want to debate with a room full of women drinking fishbowl-sized glasses of cheap Pinot Grigio with too much ice in it ― Vogue

A zippy, laugh-out-loud campus novel ... Reid's writing is so very funny, always rooted in the everyday ― i

Reading Kiley Reid's fiction feels a bit like watching a prestige TV series. There are expansive casts of characters ... The plots are pacy and compelling, motored by flashbacks and cliffhangers and twists, while also dealing with social issues - particularly race and class - that add intellectual heft. Dialogue is hyper-realistic ... so that you can hear it aloud in your head ... Reid is a talented comic writer. But it also raises deeper questions about how we view the lives of other people, as material for our own consumption. Are the attractions of books and TV so different from those of eavesdropping? ― Guardian

A master storyteller ... As fun to read as it is thought-provoking ... In heart-breaking and deeply recognisable details ... we see Reid's pen at its sharpest ― Stylist

A master plotter who's engineering a spectacular intersection of class, racism, academic politics and journalistic ethics. Reid spots all the grains of irritation and deceit that get caught in the machinery of social life until the whole contraption suddenly lurches to a calamitous halt. Come and get it, indeed! ― Washington Post

A biting comedy of campus manners ― Mail on Sunday

With her perceptive eye and ear, Reid imbues her novel with the stuff, literally and figuratively, of life ... As I read Come and Get It I found myself thinking of certain writers who have, over the years, elected themselves as "capital C" Chroniclers of contemporary America. With this book, Reid demonstrates that she deserves a place in the running ― New York Times Book Review

At once highly readable and an important comment on the lose-lose decisions millennials face in a bleak economy, this is a book you'll devour in days ― Harper's Bazaar

It gets to the heart of what Reid is: a consummate storyteller ― Service 95

Reid brings her sharp gaze to the classic campus novel, and university life provides her with similarly rich material when it comes to deconstructing privilege ... She also cleverly turns some of the genre's dustier tropes on their heads ... Part of what has always made campus stories so captivating is that they show us character as a work in progress - because our university days have always been about working out our sense of self. But contemporary tales like Reid's are a necessary reminder: this leisurely exploration is a luxury not everyone can afford ― Independent

About the Author

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.

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