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Nowhere but Home

by Liza Palmer
Morrow. Apr. 2013. 384p. ISBN 9780062007476. pap. $14.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062101488. F
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Queen Elizabeth Wake is a chef on the run from her painful past growing up in North Star, a tiny town in east Texas. She's worked all over the United States and has just been fired from her latest job at a hotel restaurant in New York City. Now Queenie must return to North Star to live with her older sister Merry Carole. The Wake sisters had it tough growing up because of their mother, Brandi-Jacques Wake. BJ was famous for two things, her cooking and her habit of dating other women's husbands, the latter resulting in BJ's murder by her best friend. Queenie takes a job at the local prison cooking last meals for prisoners on death row. Her work leads Queenie to exorcise the ghosts of her past and get closure from her mother's murderer.
VERDICT Palmer (More Like Her) uses details about cooking and high school football to create a vivid picture of small-town Texas. The characters are fully realized and the setting authentic. This appetizing, colorful tale of a young woman finding herself and finding love again will please readers who enjoy smart chick lit.
Reviewed by Kristen Stewart, Pearland Lib., Brazoria Cty. Lib. System, TX , Mar 15, 2013
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