People always say the college years are the best ones of your life. But Kiley Reid, Attica Locke, and Joanna Pearson write otherwise. In Come and Get It, Millie Cousins is focused on graduating with a job and house until she meets Agatha Paul, a visiting professor hoping to find her next great book idea in Millie’s residence hall. In Guide Me Home, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is drawn out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black woman from her all-white sorority. The brutal murder of Karlie Richards on her college campus and its aftermath twenty years later is explored in Bright and Tender Dark. In these novels, college isn’t just early-morning lectures and late-night parties, presenting complex, sometimes dark perspectives on the college experience and young adulthood. Moderated by Ted Thompson (The Land of Steady Habits).