This Arkansas-set campus tale about students with money and students without has arguably more to say about the hang-ups and have-nots of modern America. Reid wields a needle not a hammer, gradually loading her minutely observed human relationships with tension over class, race and power. I've spent the past three months in America feeling haunted by this novel's final scene, one of the most devastating excoriations of consumerism you're likely to read

Sunday Times

A brilliant book ... Really interesting, looks at the lengths we'll go to get money, and how it informs our decision making and also our relationships. It's a really good read

Fearne Cotton, Happy Place Book Club

Kiley Reid has such a way with words … This book tackles money, privilege, race, and power dynamics ... A book that's begging to be discussed as Kiley explores these topics and leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions. I couldn't stop thinking about it after I finished reading and the more I marinated on this book, the more I appreciated Kiley's ambition

Glamour

A deliciously chewy, politically charged novel ... The kind of book I want to debate with a room full of women drinking fishbowl-sized glasses of cheap Pinot Grigio with too much ice in it

Vogue

A zippy, laugh-out-loud campus novel ... Reid's writing is so very funny, always rooted in the everyday

i

This is a book about how money shapes people's lives, and it's for you if you enjoy a character-driven narrative in which everyone introduced comes with an elaborate backstory

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