"An accomplished and superior novelist" (Statesman Journal) delivers a bittersweet book about a woman's midlife crisis that asks: How does a good girl know when to finally let herself be bad?When she learns that her college ...

Eleanor Samuels's intense love affair with food is interrupted when she takes on the task of caring for her beloved Uncle Benny, while enjoying a flirtation with the new chef in town and uncovering some long-hidden secrets about her e...