When I was a seven-year-old living in Hawaii, I decided to become a novelist-but I began by writing poetry and short stories. I also enjoy discovering new authors in translation. I read fiction, biography, history, poetry, and books about art. My daughter (a college student and aspiring human centered designer) enjoys biography and novels-but only if they have exceptionally beautiful covers! My third son (a college student) loves science fiction, fantasy, and history. My second son (a law student and grad student in political theory) reads mostly non-fiction, although I try to get him to read novels. My oldest son (an economist) reads everything. I have four children, now getting pretty grown up. In my free time, I swim and walk around the city. In addition to writing fiction, I read a lot and teach on occasion.

I now live in Cambridge, MA and I own boots. Jenna Bush Hager picked SAM for her Today Show book club and said, 'Sam is about as perfect of a coming-of-age story as I have ever read.'Ībout me: I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Honolulu. My new novel SAM is about a young girl's exuberance, wonder, and ambition as she comes of age. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much-as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way.īicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living.

Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.Įmily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers.

The Cola Cookbook by Christina Tosch