Author Event | Kiley Reid: Come and Get It

When

Tuesday January 30, 2024: 6:30pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 1st Floor Lobby

Description

Bestselling author Kiley Reid returns to AADL to discuss her new book Come and Get It with best-selling author Austin Channing Brown.

It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas, and Millie Cousins—a senior resident assistant at Belgrade Dormitory—just wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. One of her residents, Kennedy Washburn, is a junior transfer who has come to Fayetteville for a fresh start. And Agatha Paul is a writer and visiting professor who is itching for her next topic.

When Agatha offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity to help each other further their own interests, Millie naturally jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed side hustle soon becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue, forcing them all to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.

Kiley Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured 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.

Austin Channing Brown is an author, speaker and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, which was chosen for Reese’s Book Club. She has also written a young readers edition of I'm Still Here and contributed essays to anthologies Hungry Hearts and You Are Your Best Thing. 

This event is in partnership with Literati Bookstore and includes a signing with books for sale.