Kiley Reid comes to Fayetteville to discus s her new book\, Come and Get It.
\nKiley Reid&rsquo\;s instant New York Times bestselling debut\, Such a Fun Age\, dazzled readers with its n uanced yet accessible examination of race\, class\, and privilege and hera lded Reid&rsquo\;s arrival as an urgent\, exhilarating new voice in fictio n. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and a coveted Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club selection\, the novel&mdash\;which tackles its fraught subject matter with both razor-sharp acuity and cringe-worthy accuracy&mdash\;was both the #1 Indie Next and LibraryReads pick for January 2020 and was widely regarded as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, NPR\, Slate \, Vogue\, Elle\, Glamour\, Good Housekeeping\, Parade\, InStyle\, Vox\, I nsider\, and more. Reid also won the African American Literary Award and a Goodreads Choice Award and was a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voi ce in Literature Award\; the NYPL Young Lions Award\; and the NAACP Image Award&mdash\;remarkable high-profile recognition that clearly marked her a s a writer to watch.
\nReid returns with her highly anticipated soph omore outing\, Come and Get It (G. P. Putnam&rsquo\;s Sons\; On Sale: Janu ary 30\, 2024)\, another intoxicating and ambitious novel about the sticki ness of transactional relationships that is every bit the fun\, layered\, incisive tale her readers have come to expect. Set at the University of Ar kansas\, this deliciously provocative story centers on a residential assis tant whose messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students w ill have surprising consequences for everyone involved. Reid&rsquo\;s writ ing brims with confidence\, offering up searing indictments of materialism and life under late capitalism as the expertly paced plot hurtles towards its astonishing\, comically horrifying climax.
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kiley Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age\, which was a New York Times be stseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been feature d in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Playboy\, The Guardian \, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. As noted in the acknowledgements of Reid's first novel\, Such a Fun Age\, she has spent time living and writing in Fayetteville.
\n< p>This event is in partnership with Pearl&rsquo\;s Books\, Two Friends Boo ks and Fayetteville Public Library.\nBooks will be available for sa le\, and a signing will follow the talk.
\nRegistration is requested for planning purposes but not required to attend.
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