Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestsellerĀ āSUCH A FUN AGE, just shared the cover of her next novelĀ āCOME & GET IT [pub: G.P. Putnam’s Sons]Ā on Instagram earlier today. Come & Get It drops early next year on January 9th and by the looks of things is a future book club selection of actress and avid reader Reese Witherspoon.
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Come & Get It Synopsis From Penguin Random House:
Itās 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 Millieās 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 behaviorāand the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.
Such A Fun Age Synopsis From Penguin Random House:
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlainsā toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The storeās security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.
But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alixās desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alixās past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone āfamily,ā and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
