Sassy, brash, acrobatic and colorful . . . I want to read it again and again. Time
Impressive . . . Soffer s style is natural and assured. Meg Wolitzer, All Things Considered, NPR

Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks to earn the love of her distracted mother, a chef, who is now packing her off to boarding school. Desperate to prove herself, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother s ideal meal. She signs up for cooking lessons from Victoria, an Iraqi-Jewish immigrant profoundly shaken by her husband s death. Soon these two women develop a deeper bond...