Susan Rebecca White
A rich, beautiful novel about three unlikely, complex characters who meet in a chic Manhattan cafÃ© and realize they must sacrifice everything they ever knew or cared about to find authenticity, fulfillment, and love.,A Place at the Table, tells the story of three richly nuanced characters whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan cafÃ©: Bobby, a gay Southern boy who has been ostracized by his family; Amelia, a wealthy Connecticut woman whose life is upended when a family secret finally comes to light; and Alice, an African-American chef whose heritage is the basis of a famous cookbook but whose past is a mystery to those who know her.,As it sweeps from a freed-slave settlement in 1920s North Carolina to the Manhattan of the deadly AIDs epidemic of the 1980s to todayâ€™s wealthy suburbs,, A Place at the Table, celebrates the healing power of food and the magic of New York as three seekers come together in the understanding that when you embrace the thing that makes you different, you become whole.
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A Place at the Table