The EFC Readers: March 2021 Book Club Selection

Hi, Everyone!

The EFC Readers, our Facebook reader group, has selected Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown as its March Book Club pick! I read this book last year, and I loved it. (You can read my 5-star review here.) The discussion will be on March 31. I hope you join us!

Recipe for a Perfect Wife
written by Karma Brown
published by Dutton, 2019

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About the book – from Goodreads: In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband–and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society.

When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home’s basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner–1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook’s pages Nellie left clues about her life–including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother.

Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie’s secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister–even dangerous–side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.

 

 

The EFC Readers is a group where we can share what we are reading and talk about books and book-related topics. It also has a monthly book club. If you would like to join this community of EFC Readers, please click the image above or this link.

 

 

 
 

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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on March 4, 2021.