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The Take

by Kelly Yang

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Book of the Day, NPR · May 1, 2026

'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age

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A novel about an aspiring writer named Maggie who makes an outlandish deal with Ingrid, an established Hollywood producer, centered on a medical procedure that accelerates Maggie's aging while reversing Ingrid's.

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