{"product_id":"9780525512455","title":"Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “extraordinary” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman’s attempt to answer the essential question \u003ci\u003eWho are we to one another?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Your heart will be altered by this book.”—Gregory Boyle, S.J., \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTattoos on the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLiz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn’t know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off her father’s long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries,” Liz writes, “and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that’s why, when we don’t know what else to do, we feed our neighbors.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCapturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSHE READS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369666908221,"sku":"9780525512455","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780525512455_p0.jpg?v=1771565370","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780525512455","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}