Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Kiley Reid’s debut novel Such a Fun Age was longlisted for the Booker Prize and chosen as Reese’s Book Club choose. With each critics’ and readers’ love of this ebook, the bookish world has been buzzing about her subsequent ebook, Come and Get It.
After sitting out for a yr, Millie is again on the University of Arkansas to complete out her senior yr. As a resident assistant, she’s accountable for serving to the dorm residents settle in for the upcoming faculty yr. If she will be able to simply get via her final yr and graduate, she’ll have the ability to begin her life and purchase a home. At least, that’s the plan. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting author and professor, presents Millie cash to let her interview college students, Millie thinks, what’s the hurt? What follows is a wild sequence of occasions full of faculty drama.
Reid excels at dialogue, giving readers pages and pages of conversations with totally different residents of the dorm. These younger girls talk about their wealthy daddies giving them allowances, clueless about their very own privilege. Other women must struggle for funding for his or her training; whereas others are given scholarships they’re barely certified to obtain.
Nicole Lewis performs the audiobook, giving a stellar efficiency of the totally different characters’ dialogue. In one other narrator’s palms, the pages of dialogue may need change into uninteresting or overdone, however Lewis’ narration makes these sections of the novel shine.
Whether you learn by way of audio or print, Reid’s skillful storytelling and vibrant characters are certain to present you a good time.
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