Probably wasn't a good choice to read postpartum, because I don't have enough time or energy or patience for any of the great things she suggests, and just kept thinking things like, "You found your husband napping while you were dealing with awful squabbling children after he ALREADY got to go to the gym? Forget letting it go. SLICE HIS FACE OFF!"

See? Not the best timing.

Really enjoyed this book. It's about a woman who wakes up from a fall at the gym and can't remember the last 10 years of her life. The last thing Alice remembers is being 29 years old, madly in love with her sweet husband Nick, and pregnant with their first child. Now people are telling her that she is 39 years old, the caffeine-fueled soccer mom of three children, and in the middle of a nasty divorce. Alice navigates her strange new life while trying to figure out how to fix whatever went wrong with her marriage. But what will happen when her memory returns?

The concept was really intriguing and I thought the writer did a great, plausible job with a plot device you would normally find in some trashy soap opera. Moriarty tackles family, marriage, parenthood, friendship, and the ways that life changes us (or the ways that we CHOOSE to change).

I ended up skimming most of the details about how the author managed to build his inventions (even though I'm beyond impressed with what he accomplished). I was more interested in the discussion about the cultural practices and influences and history of Malawi.

Beautiful and meditative. I read this one for book group and had to rush through too quickly. In a way it reminds me of "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, another woman who wrote in the form of letters to a friend after leaving her life behind and heading to Wyoming (albeit 60-odd years earlier).

I was in the mood for a foodie romance, and this hit the spot.