You know how sometimes we have a stack of books right by the door that are free to take? They are compliments of the Concord Free Press, which Stona Fitch founded. It's a revolutionary publishing house that established a new approach to publishing, one based on generosity.  GIVE + TAKE was the first novel they published in 2008, circulating a limited run of 1,500 free copies, asking only that recipients make a voluntary contribution to a charitable cause of their choice. The book raised over $50,000 for various causes, which could be tracked at ConcordFreePress.com.  Concord Free Press continues to publish two free books a year--original works by established authors.   In Fitch's wickedly enjoyable latest, Give + Take, Ross Clifton is a traveling jazz pianist who moonlights as a thief, stealing diamonds from the wealthy women he seduces after his gigs. Clifton's well-ordered life begins to unravel when he is asked to spend some time looking after his counterfeiter brother's troublesome 16-year-old son, Cray, whose attitude quickly gets under the laconic piano man's skin. Cray soon catches his felonious uncle in the act and ups the antewith potentially disastrous consequenceswhen Clifton goes to visit his dying estranged father. Complicating this situation is Clifton's attraction to Marianne London, a beautiful singer with her own shady sideline. The two performers partner up (both on- and offstage) and talk about going straight until Marianne's past comes back to threaten them. Fitch ("Senseless") hits notes suspenseful, romantic, and hilarious, and successfully bundles elements of noir, road novels, and family dramas into one consistently entertaining package. “A fresh, funny and deeply subversive novel from a writer with important things to say about our consumer culture.” --Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter