The books that I want to read and write depict human behavior in a way that's hauntingly real.

And I think if you're writing about contemporary characters, you have to have an opinion and

see the world in a certain way and you have to be able to listen to Change the World.

I'm Christian Gerei Murphy and this is the podcast

in which we talk to extraordinary people

about the big ideas and their lives and the events

that have helped shape them.

My guess this week is the author Kylie Reed. Now her debut

novel was an extraordinary success. Such a fun age was a bestseller in The

Sunday Times, a New York Times bestseller lists and she now has her second novel which is a very different story.

It's set in a university dormitory. It's called Come and Get It.

And it's rather than an examination of race and class,

which perhaps the first book was talked about a lot as this one is much more about money and

consumerism and our first for buying things kiley thank you very much indeed for

coming thank you for having me.

Now, you're a professor or an assistant professor.

I am.

And you've written about university students.

So how real is come and get it?

Come get it is completely fictionalized,

but I will say I am greatly inspired by real life.

The fiction that I like to read sounds like real people and has a heightened level of normalcy that's both real and

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