Roberta is someone who has always struggled to find her place in everything - her life, so far, has been one of solitude and looking on as others live their life. When Roberta meets Stevie, a wonderful friendship is born and soon Roberta's love of food and cooking transforms into the Supper Club - a night of eating and feasting that brings women together in wildness and debauchery. A chance for them to metaphorically and physically take up space in a world that's made them feel small.

I really like the concept of this book, and there were definitely a few passages here and there in association with the Supper Club and the need to be bigger, to take up this space, to be loud and free and while that I think hit all the right places inside of me. But for the most part, the story passed me by and there was a lot of it I didn't really like or care about which is a shame.

I will say there are definitely some glorious passages about food, and cooking and eating for the sheer pleasure of taste and satiating a hunger that might actually be a physical thing. This book will make you want to dive into a bowl of pasta or a wonderful plate of mashed potatoes just for the sheer joy of living to eat rather than eating to live.

Roberta as a character was probably what made me not enjoy the book as much as I thought. I found her a bit irksome and someone who was just tiring to watch figure out life. It felt like she was a dull automaton a lot of the time, and never seemed to know what she was doing or how to do it unless she was at Supper Club and taking drink and drugs, and acting like a hot mess. I also kept forgetting who the other members of the Supper Club were apart from Stevie!

I can definitely see why others would love this book, and get a lot out of it. It just didn't hit the mark for me. I am going to go eat some pasta now though!