On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's
tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a
suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant,
spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument. The two
could not agree on anything: not about food, work, or especially
about what Diana should do with her life. Grace warned her away
from children. Bud wanted her married above all-even if he had to
provide the ring. Caught between cultures and lavished with
contradictory "advice" from both sides of her family, Diana spent
years learning how to ignore others' well-intentioned
prescriptions. Hilarious, gorgeously written, poignant, and wise,
Life Without a Recipe is Diana's celebration of journeying without
a map, of learning to ignore the script and improvise, of escaping
family and making family on one's own terms. As Diana discovers,
however, building confidence in one's own path sometimes takes a
mistaken marriage or two-or in her case, three: to a longhaired
boy-poet, to a dashing deconstructionist literary scholar, and
finally to her steadfast, outdoors-loving Scott. It also takes a
good deal of angst (was it possible to have a serious writing
career and be a mother?) and, even when she knew what she wanted
(the craziest thing, in one's late forties: a baby!), the nerve to
pursue it. Finally, fearlessly independent like the Grace she's
named after, Diana and Scott's daughter Gracie will heal all the
old battles with Bud and, like her writer-mom, learn to cook up a
life without a recipe.
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