![]() ![]() With great care and gravity, this book offers a satisfying look at the lies we tell to feed the secrets we keep. Both are living in the same home, and married. Alice soon discovers herself baking and cooking dishes she never dreamed of. Its a dual storyline, between two women: Nellie in 1956, and Alice in 2018. RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE By: Karma Brown When Alice finds Nellie’s cookbook left in the old, stuffy basement, she soon becomes attached to wanting to learn more about Nellie’s perfect life in the 50s. ![]() ![]() It read very quickly, and I had a hard time putting it down. This mesmerizing dual narrative of a modern-day woman and a quintessential 1950s housewife is at once witty and charming and dark and sinister-much like its focus characters. Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown I zipped through this novel in a day-my first of 2020. When she discovers a vintage cookbook in her basement, the allure of cooking up Baked Alaska and Chicken a la King soon leads her into the darker story of the woman who previously owned the house, unfolding in notes tucked into the book.Īs Alice discovers striking parallels between this woman’s life and her own, she is finally forced to focus on the trajectory of her own life, questioning the foundation of her marriage and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. After reluctantly leaving New York City for the suburbs, newlywed Alice struggles with shifting roles at home and achieving domestic bliss in a new fixer-upper. ![]()
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