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2020

Title:	Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel / Karma Brown.
Author:	Brown, Karma, author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	[New York] : Dutton, [2020]
Description:	322 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house.
Subjects:	Housewives -- Fiction. Imagination -- Fiction. Married people -- Fiction. Patriarchy -- History -- Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction. Cookbooks -- Fiction. Dwellings -- Maintenance and repair -- Fiction.
Genre:	Domestic fiction.
Notes:	Includes recipes. Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781524744939
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Karma Brown is the author of five novels: the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, Come Away with Me (a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Karma has been published in SELF, Redbook, and Today's Parent, among others. She lives just outside Toronto with her husband, daughter, and a Labradoodle named Fred. - (Penguin Putnam)

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