I'll Take Everything You Have

Name: I'll Take Everything You Have
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781523526741
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By James Klise

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From an Edgar Award-winning author, this historical noir novel follows the life-changing summer of sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets caught up in the city's crooked underbelly. In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one... Read More

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I'll Take Everything You Have

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I'll Take Everything You Have

Now in paperback, from award-winning author James Klise, this noir-ish historical YA novel follows sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe in a life-changing summer as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets snared in the city's crooked underbelly.

Description

In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one goal: Earn enough money to get out of debt and save the family farm. Joe's cousin sets him up with a hotel job, then proposes a sketchy scheme to make a lot more money fast. While running his con, Joe finds himself splitting time between Eddie, a handsome flirt on a delivery truck, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the eye-opening queer life around every corner of the big city.

Joe's exposure to the surface of criminal Chicago pulls him into something darker than he could have imagined. When danger closes in—from gangsters, the police, and people he thought were friends—Joe needs to pack up and get lost. But before he can figure out where to go, he has to decide who he wants to be.

I'll Take Everything You Have is a vivid portrayal of queer coming of age in Depression-era Chicago, and a timeless story of trying to make your future bright when the rest of the world is dead set on keeping it hidden in the dark.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781523526741

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Algonquin Young Readers

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 257g

Pages: 288

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction James Klise LGBTQ+ Young Adult

About the Author

James Klise is the author of I'll Take Everything You Have and The Art of Secrets, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Teen Mystery, the Nevada Young Readers Award, and a Booklist Editor's Choice Award, among other honors. His first book, Love Drugged, was an ALA Stonewall Honor Award winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New Orleans Review, StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. Mr. Klise earned an MFA from Bennington College. He leads a popular Novel-in-A-Year workshop at StoryStudio in Chicago and, for the past two decades, he has overseen a very busy high school library.