What We Give, What We Take by Randi Triant
In 1967, escape artist Fay Stonewell leaves her disabled teenage son, Dickie, with her sadistic boyfriend and heads to Vietnam to entertain the troops in Vietnamonly to discover that the gig isnt the career advancement she was promised. Meanwhile, back home, Dickie flees from an act of violencebut the farther he runs, the tighter the past clings to him.
“Those who expect a feel-good novel to come from all this will be disappointedBut they will be captured by very good writing and wonderful portraits of Fay and Dickie. . . . A very fine novel about a mother’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 is the indelible portrait of a mother and son eking out lives on the periphery, first together, then apart. With a tenderness for life's misfits that recalls Carson McCullers, Randi Triant, in this remarkable novel, hauntingly evokes Fay's and Dickie's complexities, and those of the 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
“A haunting novel about people driven by longings beyond the boundaries of everyday life. Randi Triant tells a story that shimmers with surprises and insights about a world that’s tilted towards unconventional answers to universal questions about love and desire. Her characters’ problems are revealed with pain and humor that deliver transformations we cannot reject but that we feel are our very own. Rapid and unblinking, it’s unforgettable.”
—Maria Flook, author of New York Times bestseller Invisible Eden
—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 is the indelible portrait of a mother and son eking out lives on the periphery, first together, then apart. With a tenderness for life's misfits that recalls Carson McCullers, Randi Triant, in this remarkable novel, hauntingly evokes Fay's and Dickie's complexities, and those of the 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
“A haunting novel about people driven by longings beyond the boundaries of everyday life. Randi Triant tells a story that shimmers with surprises and insights about a world that’s tilted towards unconventional answers to universal questions about love and desire. Her characters’ problems are revealed with pain and humor that deliver transformations we cannot reject but that we feel are our very own. Rapid and unblinking, it’s unforgettable.”
—Maria Flook, author of New York Times bestseller Invisible Eden
Randi Triant is the author of the novels The Treehouse, selected as an AfterEllen.com ultimate summer read, and A New Life. 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 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781647424053 |
| ISBN 10 | 1647424054 |
| Title | What We Give, What We Take |
| Author | Randi Triant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | She Writes Press |
| Year published | 2022-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
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