Come and Get It
Kiley Reid's follow-up to Such a Fun Age trades New York nannies for an Arkansas dorm and turns the same sharp eye on class, race, and adult ambition. Millie Cousins, a Black senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas, lives a quiet, money-careful life and dreams about buying a small house. When visiting professor Agatha Paul, a successful older white writer researching young women, asks Millie if she can listen in on dorm conversations for a book, Millie says yes. What follows is a slow-spiraling chain of tape recordings, cash payments, and crossed boundaries that pulls in three undergraduates from Belgrade House, Tyler the wealthy social climber, the brittle and sheltered Kennedy, and bookish Peyton, until a small betrayal detonates everyone's plans. Funny, observant, and queasy in the best way.
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At the University of Arkansas in 2017, twenty-four-year-old RA Millie Cousins lets a visiting writer-in-residence interview her dorm residents about money. The arrangement quietly slips out of everyone's control.
Come and Get It is a standalone, but readers familiar with Kiley Reid's debut Such a Fun Age will recognize her interest in race, class, and uneasy boundaries between adults and the young people in their lives.
A film or TV adaptation has not been formally announced as of 2025, but Reid's work has attracted Hollywood interest. Such a Fun Age was previously optioned by Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad.
Come and Get It was written by Kiley Reid, published in 2024 by Diversified Publishing.
Come and Get It is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Come and Get It takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Come and Get It is a standalone novel by Kiley Reid, not part of a series.
Come and Get It is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.