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Great memoir by a restaurant critic. She has used food as a vehicle and a metaphor to talk about her life, often jumping from place to place and time period to time period, leaving you to fill in the gaps between recipes and memories of meals she cooked and ate. Most interesting I think is the story of her college roommate who was of West Indian descent. Later on her parents admitted that she was adopted and was actually the child of a black man and a white woman. Her roommate quickly shed her West Indian identity and began trying to embrace a new black identity.

One of my least favorite books. The premise of the science aspect of the book was great. However, it was not fully developed nor was there much of it in the book. One reviewer remarked about how the author jumped between the soap opera aspect, of which this was the majority of the book, and SF aspect, of which there was little, with little fluidity or logic between the two. I agree. The protagonist and other characters were well developed but I still cared little about their fates. I finished the book in order to do justice to a review that I could offer to other potential readers in way of a warning. But it was a waste of many hours of my time. The reading itself was typical Scott Brick which for my taste was acceptable but not great. If this is typical or the best that Robert Charles Wilson has to offer, I will not be continuing down this road.