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    Kiley Reid’s Real World

    by Chris Vognar Jan 31, 2024 4 minutes

    In Kiley Reid’s novels, there are no real heroes or villains, just people navigating the considerable pitfalls of life and slipping up along the way. Bad judgment, yes. Bad people? That’s a little simplistic for Reid.

    “For the most part, I think people are trying,” Reid says via Zoom from Ann Arbor, Mich., where she’s lived since she began teaching writing at the University of Michigan in 2022. “Sometimes their attempts make them falter a lot, and I like to replicate that with my characters.”

    Reid says the research she did for her new novel, , showed people in all of their fullness.

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