With deftness and wit, Nancy Spiller delivers needle-sharp insights into middle-class life and marriage, while portraying the dissolution of a family and the rise of longing for a culinary salvation. JANET FITCH, White Oleander and Paint It Black. Sharp and pungent, Nancy Spiller's superb first novel takes us on a disastrous week leading to. Entertaining Disasters—at turns whimsical and deeply affecting—chronicles the struggle FW faces in the week before she hosts her first real dinner party in ages. At the same time, her estranged sister threatens to drop by, her husband takes off, and even more disaster looms, in this “funny, satirical novel” (Booklist) that “offers sharp, startling observations in a unique and very human voice” (Elle)/5(17). · Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) by Nancy Spiller | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook) $ Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. WANT A NOOK?
Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with Recipes) 1. What was your first impression of the narrator? Did you identify with her struggle to connect with people through home entertaining? 2. What, besides throwing a dinner party, is the narrator's greatest challenge? Is she able to meet it by novel's end? 3. Nancy Spiller. likes. Nancy Spiller is the author of Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) and Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother's Recipe Box. Preview and download books by Nancy Spiller, including Compromise Cake, Entertaining Disasters and many more.
Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) by Nancy Spiller | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook) $ Sign in to Purchase Instantly. In print, the unnamed freelance food writer of Nancy Spiller’s sardonic debut novel, Entertaining Disasters, lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.’s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic about her hip home gatherings, while thinly veiling the identities of her A-list glitterati guests. JANET FITCH, White Oleander and Paint It Black. Sharp and pungent, Nancy Spiller’s superb first novel takes us on a disastrous week leading to a promised dinner party that can make or break the narrator’s food writing career. Infused with bittersweet tales of a family minced by maternal madness and sprinkled with the aftermath of childhood loss, Entertaining Disasters rem.
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