Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies and Memoirs) - Hardcover

Abu-Jaber, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410489329 ISBN 13: 9781410489326

Verlag: THORNDIKE PR, 2016

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This bold, luscious memoir is both recollection and guide. Brimming with great meals and family struggle, it walks a path between cultural traditions and American individualism. A vivid story of one writer s journey to build a creative life, one lived without recipes, this book will be indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path.--Ruth Reichl"

Life Without a Recipe is filled with visceral joys and literary beauty as well as soulful honesty and a gripping story. Diana Abu-Jaber writes trenchantly and gorgeously about family, marriage, and motherhood with insights and connections that feel hard-won and richly earned. Her sharp intelligence and unsparing self-knowledge bristle on every page alongside her passionate brio for life in all its flavors and complexities. --Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special and The Great Man

Wonderfully written, honest, funny, and deeply heart-touching, Diana Abu-Jaber s memoir is a joyous read that speaks to the creative spirit in us all.--Heidi W. Durrow, New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"

[A] deliciously candid story .Generously seasoned by an abiding love of food and a keen eye for the nuances of human relationships, this book is a reminder that however unpredictable it may be, life is a dish to be savored. A delectably warm and wise memoir."

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On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument. The two could not agree on anything: not about food, work, or especially about what Diana should do with her life. Grace warned her away from children. Bud wanted her married above all even if he had to provide the ring. Caught between cultures and lavished with contradictory advice from both sides of her family, Diana spent years learning how to ignore others well-intentioned prescriptions.

Hilarious, gorgeously written, poignant, and wise, Life Without a Recipe is Diana s celebration of journeying without a map, of learning to ignore the script and improvise, of escaping family and making family on one s own terms. As Diana discovers, however, building confidence in one s own path sometimes takes a mistaken marriage or two or in her case, three: to a longhaired boy-poet, to a dashing deconstructionist literary scholar, and finally to her steadfast, outdoors-loving Scott. It also takes a good deal of angst (was it possible to have a serious writing career and be a mother?) and, even when she knew what she wanted (the craziest thing, in one s late forties: a baby!), the nerve to pursue it.

Finally, fearlessly independent like the Grace she s named after, Diana and Scott s daughter Gracie will heal all the old battles with Bud and, like her writer-mom, learn to cook up a life without a recipe."

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• Verlag: THORNDIKE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410489329
• ISBN 13: 9781410489326
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352