Program Type:
Book DiscussionAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Join us Tuesday, March 18 at 7pm for a discussion of Recipe For A Perfect Wife by Karma Brown.
Registration is not required. All are welcome, bring a friend! Light refreshments will be served. Titles will be available for checkout in a variety of formats from the front desk three weeks prior to meeting date.
Book description: When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook's pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister--even dangerous--side to Nellie's marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.
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We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.