Take What You Need: A Novel
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Idra Novey. (2023). Take What You Need: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Idra Novey. 2023. Take What You Need: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Idra Novey, Take What You Need: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2023.

Idra Novey. Take What You Need: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2023.

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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 of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new,’ be it a work of art or a human connection.”—The Wall Street Journal
From “one of the finest and bravest novelists at work today,” (Vulture) 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, who’s sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah’s urban life with her young family, she’s revealed little about Jean, how much she misses her stepmother’s hard-won insights and joyful 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 her ramshackle 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 played an unknown role in Jean’s last years and in her art. 
With great verve and humor, Idra Novey zeros in on the joys and difficulty of family, the ease with which we let distance mute conflict, and the power we can draw from creative pursuits.
Take What You Need explores the continuing mystery of the people we love most with passionate and resonance, this novel illuminating can be built from what others have discarded—art, unexpected friendship, a new contentment of self. This is Idra Novey at her very best.

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     November 14, 2022
     Novey (Those Who Knew) unfurls a blistering if uneven two-hander about culture clashes in contemporary Southern Appalachia. Leah, an editor living in New York City, drives to her remote and blighted hometown in the Alleghanies after receiving word of her artist stepmother, Jean’s accidental death. A young man named Elliott delivered the news, explaining that he’d been living with Jean when she fell from a ladder while building one of her “Manglements” from scrap metal, and the sculptures are now Leah’s. Leah’s uneasy about making the trek with her Spanish-speaking husband and young son, whose presence elicits a tense and nightmarish encounter with xenophobic patrons of a rural gas station. Much backstory ensues over the course of Leah’s winding trip in her and Jean’s alternating chapters, showing the self-taught Jean hiring Elliot, an idle neighbor living in the Section 8 house next door, as an assistant. Some of these scenes are well done, with low-level tension as Jean and Elliot gradually warm to each other and an excellent staging of a mishap involving a grinder and a life-threatening gash, but others are a bit too drawn out. For example, when Leah finally arrives and recognizes Elliot, she’s unnerved, and the teased-out details about why she feels this way don’t quite bring about the intended crisis point. Still, Novey brings nuance to depictions of the marginalized locals from Jean’s point of view. It’s a solid effort, but it doesn’t have the power of the author’s previous outing.

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   • content: Christina Delaine and author Idra Novey deliver this character-driven novel set in Northern Appalachia. Novey narrates the perspective of Leah, a woman who is returning to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania to claim the art her stepmother, Jean, left her in her will. Novey's performance embodies Leah's introspective nature as she tries to make sense of her childhood by working through her memories of Jean. In alternating chapters, Delaine portrays Jean, giving listeners a glimpse of the stepmother's life before she died. With her rich voice and excellent cadence, Delaine's narration illuminates Jean's complex character. Both Novey and Delaine pay close attention to dialect, using accents true to both the Northern Appalachian region and each of the characters they portray. K.D.W. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
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     June 10, 2024
     

     Award-winning poet and novelist Novey (Ways To Disappear) offers a dual-perspective narrative that begins with Leah learning that her former stepmother Jean has passed away and has left her large metal sculptures, aka "Manglements," to her. Leah is surprised at this, as the two women shared a strained, meager relationship after Jean left Leah's father. Following the divorce, Jean became a self-taught welding sculptor who idolized artists Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin and spent her days constructing pieces made from scrap metal. Elliott, an unemployed young man who assisted Jean with her artwork, tracks down Leah to inform her of Jean's death. Leah travels with her husband and toddler to Jean's home in an economically depressed area of the Pennsylvania Alleghenies; although the visit is uneasy, it helps Leah to reconcile her complicated relationship with Jean. The book rushes to its conclusion with Leah's endeavor to find a home for the Manglements serving as a vehicle for her grief. Read by the author and Christina Delaine, whose voice work shines, especially in her portrayal of Elliott. VERDICT Suggested, but not essential, for libraries of the Southern Allegheny Mountain region. Those interested in metal sculpting may find the metalwork process compelling.--Kym Goering

     Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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 of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new,’ be it a work of art or a human connection.”—The Wall Street Journal
From “one of the finest and bravest novelists at work today,” (Vulture) 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, who’s sought a clean break from her rural...

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