Come and Get It
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A LibraryReads Pick 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.
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This is an odd book, a little disturbing really in that way that’s quite real, like these flawed characters definitely exist in real life and the pace at which we’re following their stories is very believable (ie. quite slow at times). I really had to push through to finish this as I had no idea what the story was about or where it was going most of the time, and to be honest the ending feels adrift as well, but by the last few chapters curiosity...read more
Three books inspired the three protagonists in Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality birthed professor and journalist Agatha Paul. Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything delivered undergrad Kennedy. Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics created RA Millie.
As a Resident Assistant, Millie loves jobs and rules and saving money so much that she doesn't see when sh...read more
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