20. Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Morag Prunty: A second book borrowed from my friend Fay's Goodreads list, and this one, definitely a read worth checking out. What a beautifully written story! Tressa is a modern-day cooking expert, who, at 38, rushes into a marriage only to realize that she's married the wrong man. She longs for a marriage like her grandmother's. Tressa's Manhattan life is interspersed with chapters (and recipes) of her grandmother's life in Ireland in the 1930s. The Tressa chapters are good, but the grandmother chapters are captivating and really encapsulate a beautiful (non)romance. The lives are starkly parallel, yet each reconciles herself in her own way in a story I didn't want to end. This was a perfect summer read.
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