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On the surface, the main characters in Kelly Yang’s new novel, “

Ingrid Parker is a rich, white, female movie producer who has paid her dues and scrapped her way to position of power in Hollywood. 

Maggie Wang is a young, broke, Asian American writer who is desperately looking for approval and a break. 

But what they share is an an awareness of time: Ingrid doesn’t have enough. Maggie is impatient for it to move faster.

When a medical experiment ties the two together, their individual assumptions about ambition and aging and mentorship and power are challenged. How much are they each willing to sacrifice in the quest to succeed? 

Yang, who is mostly known for her middle-grade books, including the wildly successful “

” series, says she wrote her first adult novel because she needed to process what she experienced firsthand in Hollywood. She talks about that and much more with Kerri Miller on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas. 

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When a Hollywood producer embarks on a medical experiment and a movie script with an ambitious young writer, her beliefs about ambition and aging are tested.

Kelly Yang's 'The Take' is an anti-aging thriller

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Kelly Yang's 'The Take' is an anti-aging thriller

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