![]() ![]() We don’t even get much information about the food they serve up, except for a veritable parade of the names of very obscure dishes along with a hint of some of their unconventional ingredients.Įvaluation: At the end of the book that talked about food on every page, I was left oddly unsatisfied and hungry for something of more substance. What we do learn about, on the other hand, are some of the ups and downs of running restaurants. ![]() Nor could I come up with more than a two or three word description of their love interests. It takes place over approximately a year, after which time we hardly know the brothers any more than we did at the start. It is more of a book in which nothing much happens at all. The publisher’s blurb contends that this is “the story of three brothers running competing restaurants in the same small town – and the sibling rivalry, culinary snobbery, and romantic jealousy that burns among them.” I find that to be quite an overstatement. This is a quiet book about the restaurant business set in a small town outside of Philadelphia. I am the author of four novels: The Angels Share (Zibby Books, 2023), Bread and Butter (Doubleday, 2014), But Not For Long (Picador, 2010), and Youre Not. ![]()
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