Come and Get It by Kylie Reid is another clever social commentary about the interplay of power, money, and race from the author of the popular 2019 novel Such a Fun Age. Come and Get It takes a piercing look at academia through the relationship between Agatha Paul, a white 30-something professor at the University of Arkansas and Millie, the 24-year-old Black resident assistant at one of the school’s dorms. Agatha is writing a book about Southern women and contemporary weddings and she uses Millie as a source for her research. The ethics of this agreement become much more questionable when Agatha starts paying Millie, who’s desperately saving up for a house, to eavesdrop on some of her fellow students. As always, Reid’s ear for conversation and social observation is finely tuned and razor sharp.