Spring reading: History, fantasy among 5 new books by Cape Cod authors
Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Cape Cod Times
Updated April 19. 2022
“What We Give, What We Take,” by Randi Triant (2022, She Writes Press)
The third novel for Triant, a year-round Provincetown resident, is a story of second chances and rising above dysfunctional family circumstances that is set over decades. As a woman and her son try to overcome bad decisions and escape their past, both are surrounded by an unusual set of characters, including in Provincetown, where son Dickie lives with a man who’s dying of AIDS. Triant’s previous novels are “The Treehouse” and “A New Life,” and she has published multiple pieces of short fiction and non-fiction, including in two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS.
Triant’s just-released novel is connected to a seven-artist “What We Give” exhibit at The Commons (46 Bradford St., Provincetown) that explores work by and about individuals living with physical (including HIV/AIDS) or mental challenges and how they continue to give when so much is taken from them. At the exhibit’s opening from 5 to 9 p.m. on May 7, Triant will give a brief reading from her novel and Q&A along with an artist talk.
