Sally’s thoughts: “I really liked the author’s earlier book, Such a Fun Age, so was eager to read her next. This book had a “modern feel” to me (perhaps because dorm life has changed a lot in the past 50, um, few years). She creates characters who are sympathetic even when they made big mistakes.”
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.
It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks and illicit intrigue.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion, and bad behavior.
