![]() ![]() You have Nellie, your stereotypical 1950s housewife living in surburban New York with her god-awful husband Richard, and there’s Alice, who moves with her husband Nate into Nellie’s former house in 2018. It’s not a happy story, per se, but it’s an important one. But there are certainly bad spouses and toxic relationships, and this is what Recipe for a Perfect Wife delves into. Obviously, there’s no such thing as the perfect wife or the perfect marriage. (This part reminded me of The Finishing Touches.) Each chapter starts with a snippet of laughably (read: infuriatingly outdated and sexist) marriage advice for women to enforce what an “ideal” wife should be. This women’s fiction meets“ foodie fiction” novel first drew me in with its cheeky, ironic title. Much of Recipe for a Perfect Wife reminded me of a mix of Friends and Strangers and Julie and Julia and… something else. ![]() This bold, thought-provoking, and heartfelt novel by Karma Brown captured me right from the start with its recipes, its gardening advice, and its setting in the New York suburbs – all the things an in-her-late-30s woman like myself enjoys. ![]() Both abound in Recipe for a Perfect Wife. ![]() The quickest way to dissolve a marriage is with secrets and lies. ![]()
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