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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today
Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
“A heart-rending book, but also a beautiful celebration…
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1 author picked Take What You Need as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book immersed me in a world we don't usually read about in fiction--unemployed, working-class Western Pennsylvania-- with vivid writing, bringing together two very different narrators. I was drawn into the characters' deep relationships. And I particularly loved the "manglement" sculptures that the author invents.
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