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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
National Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

An Indie Next Pick
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, shejumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardizedby odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicitintrigue.

A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and recklessabandon, Come and Get It is atension-filledstory about money, indiscretion, and bad behaviorand the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

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One of Southern Review of Books Best Southern Books of January
One of Town and Countrys Best Books of January
One of BookBubs Best Winter Books
One of Womans Worlds Best Books Club Books
One of Essence Magazines Must-Reads Books
One of New York Posts Best New Books
One of Harpers Bazaar's Best Beach Reads of 2024
One of W Magazine's Best Books of 2024
One of CrimeReads' Greatest Campus Novels Ever Written
One of Glamour's Best Books for Book Clubs in 2024
A People Magazine Book of the Week
A New Yorker Best Book of the Week
A Harpers Bazaar Book Chat February Pick

"[Come and Get It] tackles money, privilege, race, and power dynamics. . . . This is a book that is begging to be discussed as Kiley explores these topics and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions."Glamour

"A sharp, edgy, social novel. . . Reid is a genius of mimicry and social observation."WYPR

"[A] snappy page-turner. . . [with] apt depictions of contemporary southern culture."NPR

"Come and Get It is tense and often uncomfortable, pulling readers in with a sense of horrified fascination as they see the boundaries that people will push to make money in the current economic climate."Book Riot

"Fascinating. . . You will not be able to predict where the story will go, but the journey to get there was completely riveting." Book Riot

"[A] humorous examination of consumerism, race, and yearning."Bitter Southerner

"Reids sophomore novel, is about a residential assistant at the University of Arkansas, and I cant wait to see how Reid applies her sharp social commentary to the messy power dynamics of academia. Ill be packing it in my carry-on."Carley Fortune, USA Today's "10 Best Beach Reads"

"Kiley Reid has such a way with words. . . . This book tackles money, privilege, race, and power dynamics. . . . A book that's begging to be discussed." Glamour

"Come and Get It is filled with incisive observations on the different versions of the American dream that drive us, and how we each choose to get there."W Magazine

"This is a book about how money shapes peoples lives, and its for you if you enjoy a character-driven narrative in which everyone introduced comes with an elaborate backstory."Harper's Bazaar

"Grapple[s] with the heady concepts of desire, privilege, and the rules of social conduct in an environment where the game is rigged and fairness is reserved for a select few. . . . Heavy on character development and social commentary, Come and Get It is the kind of book you put down and immediately want to discuss."Vulture

"With only a handful of chapters, numerous characters feel fleshed-out and well-rounded. The story gets its hooks in with such subtlety, the reader doesnt realize how far shes been pulled in until Come & Get It is well under the skin, the characters staying for days."BUST Magazine

"Reids skillful storytelling and vibrant characters are sure to give you a great time."BookRiot

"Reid really shines. The dialogue and personalities she created for each dorm resident, each classmate and each parent are so complete, it's like tuning into a juicy reality show already in progress. . . . Consumerism, race, desire,griefand growth are key themes in Reid's novel, but connection might be the thread through them all." USA Today

"Amuses and captivates from the first page.. . . Reid crafts a witty and moving vignette of college life, the challenges it poses, and the women who endure them. . . . A clever, accurate portrayal of the immaturity and growth of young adulthood." The Harvard Crimson

"Reids novels are interested in recognizing the pervasiveness of this economic approach to life, exploring its consequences, and trying to think past it. . . . Another opportunity to think about important social issues from a welcome new angle." Chicago Review of Books

"Reid creates a story with real weight. Her ear for dialogue [is] finely tuned. It feels like youre reading great gossip, but the characters come across as genuine, with real problems. Come and Get It is a fun, propulsive read that puts readers in a world most of them will have long since graduated from, but which provides an ideal window to explore deeper themes from relationships to class and privilege to racism." Associated Press

"The story unfurls like a magic trick, its breeziness disguising an incisive and damning exploration of economics and ethics in America. . . . Reid is a social observer of the highest order, knowing exactly when a small detail or beat of dialogue will resonate beyond the confines of the scene. . . . Its a testament to Reids gifts that . . . she never judges her characters. Her world, like the real one, is populated by people whose shortsightedness lives alongside good intentions. . . . With her perceptive eye and ear, Reid imbues her novel with the stuff, literally and figuratively, of life. . . . Her characters feel unique, often lovable and always human. Money drives them in the way it drives us all, and thats the beauty (and the terror) of Reids point. With her remarkable examination of American monoculture from fast food to pop culture to handed-down ideals she tells a story about economics thats neither poverty porn nor finance fantasy. Instead, its about the hows and whys of everyday consumerism and the insidious toll it takes on our lives. . . . 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." The New York Times Book Review

"Reid nails the anxiety about the future (and the present) for some students and the unperturbed overconfidence for others, depending largely on who has needed to develop defenses and who has not. That, of course, means taking into account the contexts of race and class and sexuality, as well as social skills and trauma history. She nails the heightened interpersonal conflicts that grow in cramped shared rooms like mildew on the walls. She burrows deeply into one young woman's pain and the lessons she learns about what it means to have other people invited into that pain to be spectators." NPR

"A thrilling, delectable look at wealth, privilege, and desire." People Magazine

"Clever . . . Beginning with an interview of these young women could easily have felt like the laziest kind of exposition, but in Reids hands it serves as a brilliant demonstration of her own approach as a novelist: Listen. . . . The key is Reids exquisitely calibrated tone . . . Shes so good at capturing both the syrupy support and catty criticism these young women swap, and yet she also demonstrates a profound understanding of their fears and anxieties. Not to mention she gathers accents and verbal quirks like shes picking delicate fruit. . . . Youre in the presence of a master plotter whos 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!"The Washington Post

"Masterfully captures the quiet misalignments that stem from a varying sense of whats at stake. . . . [A] novel of manners that acutely captures the modern moment." Vogue

"Juicynaturallybut poignant, this highly anticipated return from the Such a Fun Age author is sure to get tongues wagging." Elle

"Reid employs her signature sharp eye and sardonic wit to spear academia in Come and Get It, a biting comedy of manners. Entertainment Weekly

"Such A Fun Age still occupies space in my brain for its incisive brilliance. Reids highly-anticipated second novel Come and Get It tackles themes of consumption and reckless abandon." Nylon

"Reid makes a strong return with her biting and smart new novel." Shondaland

"Come and Get It is a page-turning read filled with vengeful pranks and intrigue, but at its heart, it is a fascinating portrait of our obsession with material wealth." Chicago Review of Books

"Clear and artfully expressed . . . [Reid] is very good at sketching a scene." The Wall Street Journal

"This new book promises all the same ability at depth and poignancy through a fun, plotty story... Its a perfect recipe for a great January read: in a college setting, about discretion and desire, about money, want, and, most importantly, its by Kiley Reid." LitHub

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Author Bio

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, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.