Showing Starting from Scratch: A Novel by Susan Gilbert-Collins

Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2010 Pages: 322 Publisher: Touchstone Why is SOMEONE who just defended the HER doctoral withdissertation still wasting HER time at Her Childhood home two months after HER Mother's Funeral. Making coq au vin and osso buco Olivia Tschetter. the youngest of four high-achieving South Dakotan siblings. is not returning to normal-or to graduate school-quickly enough to suit her family. She wants only to bury herself in her mother's kitchen. finding solace in their shared passion for cooking . Threatened with grief counseling. Olivia accepts a temporary position at the local Meals on Wheels. where she stumbles upon some unfinished business from her mother's past-and a dark family secret. Startling announcements from two siblings also challenge the family's status quo. The last thing she needs is a deepening romantic interest in a close but platonic (she...