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A review by soobooksalot
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
5.0
"Our gender can be our greatest strength, but it is also our greatest weakness."
Just finished Karma Brown's Recipe For A Perfect Wife as a group read with some fellow Canadian Bookstagrammers and loved it! Chapters alternate between two characters and timeframes - Alice in 2018 and Nellie in 1955.
Both women lived in the same house, 60+ years apart, and Alice learns of the previous owner's life through letters, cookbooks, magazines and personal items left behind. These are portraits of women making new lives within the expectations of their roles and pressures of being newly married.
This is unique storytelling, with Nellie's chapters featuring recipes of the era that tie into her story, and old-timey marital advice for Alice's.
But don't be misled, there are indeed dark threads running through each woman's experiences! Recommended!
"The sun always returned... as long as you were strong enough to wait for it."
Just finished Karma Brown's Recipe For A Perfect Wife as a group read with some fellow Canadian Bookstagrammers and loved it! Chapters alternate between two characters and timeframes - Alice in 2018 and Nellie in 1955.
Both women lived in the same house, 60+ years apart, and Alice learns of the previous owner's life through letters, cookbooks, magazines and personal items left behind. These are portraits of women making new lives within the expectations of their roles and pressures of being newly married.
This is unique storytelling, with Nellie's chapters featuring recipes of the era that tie into her story, and old-timey marital advice for Alice's.
But don't be misled, there are indeed dark threads running through each woman's experiences! Recommended!
"The sun always returned... as long as you were strong enough to wait for it."