{"product_id":"what-we-give-what-we-take-paperback","title":"What We Give, What We Take - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandi Triant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eParade Magazine's \"20 New LGBTQ+ Books We're Loving This Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWomen.com's \"10 LGBTQ Must-Reads for Pride Month\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe Knows.com's \"10 Books Featuring Mother-Child Relationships \u0026amp; All Their Beautiful Complexity\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonths 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. Fay, meanwhile, is also facing dangerous threats. From the night her plane jolts onto a darkened Saigon runway, she is forced to confront every bad decision she's ever made as she struggles to return to her son. But the Humans owner is hell-bent on keeping her in Vietnam, performing only for war-injured children at a hospital, daily reminders of the son she's left behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, Dickie is forty, living in a Massachusetts coastal town with a man who's dying of AIDS, and doing everything he can to escape his past. But although Spin may be giving Dickie what he's always wanted--a home without wheels--it seems that the farther Dickie runs, the tighter the past clings to him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Give, What We Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving story of second chances and rising above family circumstances, however dysfunctional they may be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandi Triant is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eWhat We Give, What We\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTake\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A \u0026amp; U\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFingernails Across the Blackboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV\/AIDS from the Black Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives with her wife in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 323\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47393701724338,"sku":"9781647424053","price":17.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/LTa-uIU6x19781647424053.webp?v=1783643802","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/what-we-give-what-we-take-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}