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Author Kiley Reid Reveals Come & Get It Book Cover

Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestsellerĀ ā˜›SUCH A FUN AGE, just shared the cover of her next novelĀ ā˜›COME & 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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Handpicked by Reese Witherspoon?

 

Come & Get It Synopsis From Penguin Random House:

Itā€™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 Millieā€™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 behaviorā€”and 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 storeā€™s 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 Alixā€™s 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 Alixā€™s 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 ā€œfamily,ā€ and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.

 

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