Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
Buy on AmazonTold through multiple perspectives, I could not put this snappy page-turner down, even though I had no idea where it was going until its jaw-dropping crescendo. Set at the University of Arkansas, this story follows several college students and a writing professor over the course of a year, largely through the lens of their relationship with money – how it motivates them, how it gets them into and (for some) out of situations – as well as race, sexuality, power and social status. As a Southerner and the graduate of a Southern university, I found myself nodding along excitedly to Reid’s apt depictions of contemporary Southern culture.
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"Told through multiple perspectives, I could not put this snappy page-turner down, even though I had no idea where it was going until its jaw-dropping crescendo. Set at the University of Arkansas, this story follows several college students and a writing professor over the course of a year, largely through the lens of their relationship with money – how it motivates them, how it gets them into and (for some) out of situations – as well as race, sexuality, power and social status. As a Southerner and the graduate of a Southern university, I found myself nodding along excitedly to Reid’s apt depictions of contemporary Southern culture."
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