**A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi's unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera --a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron's Heartburn** Lon
Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie
β Scribed by Howard, Beth M
- Book ID
- 107821737
- Publisher
- Harlequin
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781459225749
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β¦ Synopsis
" You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It's bitter. It's messy. It's got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn't perfect, it still turns out okay in the end."
When journalist Beth M. Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way--whether filming a documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of Los Angeles--Beth uses pie as a way to find purpose. Howard eventually returns to her Iowa roots and creates the perfect synergy between two of America's greatest icons--pie and the American Gothic House, the little farmhouse immortalized in Grant Wood's famous painting, where she now lives and runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand.
Making Piece powerfully shows how one courageous woman triumphs over tragedy. This...
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