Book Talks: Extra Sauce by Zahra Tangorra

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Join our book discussion group onExtra sauce : the good, the bad, and the onions : a memoir by Zahra Tangorra. Share your thoughts on the book and get to know other readers in your community. "At twenty-two years old, Zahra Tangorra was trying on adulthood and attempting to find herself when a harrowing near-death experience stopped her in her tracks. It felt like a twisted version of a second chance. Who am I? she asked herself. What do I love? The answers started coming to her: Stuffed shells and giant meatballs at J&J's, the Italian red sauce joint of her Long Island childhood. Her mother's chocolate mousse pie and her father's sweet and savory pea soup. The people, places, and experiences that made her her, the relationships both loving and fraught--they were all, for better and sometimes worse, inextricably bound up with food. In this memoir that celebrates both the delicious and the messy in life, Zahra reckons with the adrenaline-filled highs and devastating lows of opening cult-favorite Brooklyn restaurant Brucie and then closing it at the height of its popularity. From cooking her father his last meal and the unexpected yet beautiful things she found at the bottom of her grief to the relationships she couldn't save through cooking, like her fractured family and the lover she had to leave in Tuscany, Zahra writes about the immense courage it takes to allow ourselves to be loved, extra sauce and all."--Amazon. Place your copy on hold with our online catalog or visit the branch to check it out. No need to finish the book beforehand. All are welcome!

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