Readalikes for Take What You Need: the 2024 Sioux City Reads Book

Had a chance to read 2024’s Sioux City Reads book, Take What You Need by Idra Novey?

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 reveals how much she misses her stepmother’s hard-won insights and joyful lack of inhibition. When Jean dies, 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.

If you enjoyed Take What You Need the Library has a list of  read-alikes for you to explore next:

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