Summary
What We Give, What We Take
In 1967, Fay Stonewell, a water tank escape artist in Florida, leaves for Vietnam to join the Amazing Humans—a jerry-rigged carnival there to entertain the troops—abandoning her disabled teenage son, Dickie, to the care of an abusive boyfriend.
Months after Fay’s departure, Dickie’s troubled home life ends in a surprising act of violence that forces him to run away. He soon lands in Manhattan, where he’s taken in by eccentric artist Laurence Jones.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781647424053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1647424054 |
| Author: | Randi Triant |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 446g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
2023 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist in LGBTQ+ Fiction
2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist in LGBTQ+ (Adult Fiction)
“Those who expect a feel-good novel to come from all this will bedisappointed. But they will be captured by very good writing andwonderful portraits of Fay and Dickie… . A very fine novel about amother’s love and a son’s survival.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“At once tender, cruel, sensitive, and raw, What We Give, What We Take is a searing novel in which wounded people make hard decisions in order to survive.”
—Foreword Reviews
“What We Give, What We Take isthe indelible portrait of a mother and son eking out lives on theperiphery, first together, then apart. With a tenderness for life’smisfits that recalls Carson McCullers, Randi Triant, in this remarkablenovel, hauntingly evokes Fay’s and Dickie’s complexities, and those ofthe men and women who exploit, brutalize, nurture, and adore them.”
—Claire Messud, author of the national bestselling novels, The Woman Upstairs and The Emperor’s Children
“Ahaunting novel about people driven by longings beyond the boundaries ofeveryday life. Randi Triant tells a story that shimmers with surprisesand insights about a world that’s tilted towards unconventional answersto universal questions about love and desire. Her characters’ problemsare revealed with pain and humor that deliver transformations we cannotreject but that we feel are our very own. Rapid and unblinking, it’sunforgettable.”
—Maria Flook, author of New York Times bestseller Invisible Eden
Randi Triant
Randi Triant is the author of the novel What We Give, What We Take, which received the Independent Publisher’s 2023 IPPY Gold Award in LGBTQ+ Fiction and was selected as a Finalist (LGBTQ+/Adult Fiction) for Foreword’s 2022 INDIES Book of the Year Awards. It was also included in Parade Magazine’s “20 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2022 We Love.” Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS, Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A & U and Fingernails Across the Blackboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She lives with her wife in Massachusetts.
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