Take What You Need Novey Idra
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of astonishing and singular honesty (Rumaan Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices.Set in the…
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In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of astonishing and singular honesty (Rumaan Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices.Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean, and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah. Leah sought an urban life for her young family and a clean break from her rural childhood, even when that meant losing her stepmother's hard-won insights and inspiring lack of inhibition. But with Jean's death, Leah must return to sort through what's been left behind.What Leah discovers is staggering: Jean has filled the house with giant sculptures she's welded from scraps of the area's industrial history. There's also a young man now living in the house who's played an unknown role in Jean's last years and in her art.With great