Goodman, Allegra. The Cookbook Collection.
Are you looking for a pair of siblings to rival the Dashwood sisters in Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility?” Search no further than Emily and Jess Bach. The oldest, Emily is the CEO of a computer start-up company with longings for marriage and all that it traditionally entails. However, her beau Jonathan, a fellow computer executive, is proving someone not to be trusted with details about a breakthrough in Emily’s company. Meanwhile, Jess the perpetual graduate student is juggling attractions for a charismatic ecology crusader and George, an antiquarian book dealer who employs Jess part time. When a mystery woman’s enormous inheritance of cookbooks requires cataloging help, Microsoft stock retiree George sees a chance to seduce comely Jess with gourmet meals and the décor of his home. With numerous literary references and other equally compelling characters Goodman creates a journey to which Miss Austen herself would likely bestow approval.
Also by Allegra Goodman at Merrick Library:
The Family Markowitz
Intuition
Kaaterskill Falls
Paradise Park
Revieved by Librarian, Bob.
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