In conversation with Amber Sims
From Kiley Reid, the celebrated author of Such a Fun Age, comes her highly anticipated new novel Come & Get It, a fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon.
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.
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, the Guardian, and others. Reid is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
“An emotionally intense exploration of power dynamics within relationships that doesn’t settle for easy villains and victims.” —Library Journal
