The February pick for the Good Morning America book club is Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It.
Reid’s novel, her second after the bestselling Such a Fun Age, was published Tuesday by Putnam. It follows a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas who becomes obsessed with a group of suitemates, and pays a resident advisor to help spy on them. A critic for Kirkus called the book a “sharp, edgy social novel,” and wrote, “Reid is a genius of mimicry and social observation.”
GMA contributor Jess Sims announced the book club pick on the show, saying, “It’s got twists, with drama, money, secrets that all play out on a college campus.”
Sims spoke with Reid about the novel. “Over the past few years I’ve been pretending like I did a big pop album,” Reid said in the interview, “but this one is like my acoustic, uncut, raw album.”
Sims asked Reid why it was important for her to address the theme of money in the novel.
“College has this really unique way of masking everyone’s financial status, and making it seem like we’re all the same, and it’s not really true, though,” Reid said. “I was really interested in poking at the little ways that money seeps out and changes relationships for good and for bad.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
