Book Review: Stones for Bread..A Novel by Christa Parrish

 

Book Review: Stones for Bread...A Novel by Christa Parrish

 

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Book Review: A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity.

 

Liesl McNamara's life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft.

 

But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled grandson into the bakeshop as an apprentice. Her waitress submits Liesl's recipes to a popular cable cooking show. And the man who delivers her flour--a single father with strange culinary habits--seems determined to win Liesl's affection.

 

When Wild Rise is featured on television, her quiet existence appears a thing of the past. And then a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister forces Liesl to confront long-hidden secrets in her family's past. With her precious heritage crumbling around her, the baker must make a choice: allow herself to be buried in detachment and remorse, or take a leap of faith into a new life.

 

Filled with both spiritual and literal nourishment, Stones for Bread provides a feast for the senses from award-winning author Christa Parrish.

 

My Review: A very comfortable cover draws you in to the book immediately...flour covered hands with a heart shaped piece of bread dough. This book has it all; a life story from childhood to adulthood, a budding romance and a mother/child relationship and bread recipes!! While Liesl McNamara had a life that she loved growing up, she did have some sadness throughout that she soon finds out that some minor twists and turns could have prevented. Still, the life she led was the hand she was dealt and she made the very most of it. Once on television to prove her breads are the very best, she encounters some decisions that could take her life in many different directions...which road shall she take? After getting a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister, it throws her in yet another direction of a life she was not familiar with and is unsure that she wants to deal with. Can her decisions put her down the path that she wants to take?!!