Books

Hunger
Anna Rossi grew up in a home where every meal was poorly cooked and flavorless. Now, years later, a gifted cook, she finds her own appetite draining away as her marriage dissolves into blandness.

Tattooed with Food
In January my thoughts are turned to cake. Birthday cake, that is. The first quarter of the year means birthday season for the Ward household. January, February, March– our four birthdays come one after the other on the heels of the holiday season and break up what, for me, is a depressing stretch of gray gloom and dirty snow and cold.

The Mosaic Artist
On his deathbed, Jack Manoli contemplates the pivotal decision that brought him an excellent second marriage to Sylvie but destroyed his first family; heaped adult burdens on his teenaged daughter, Shelley; and cost him the affection of his young son, Mark.

As death looms, both pairs – Jack and Sylvie, Shelley and Mark – visit and revisit their past and take stock of their present.