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A Novel
Author Self-Published
May 2026
On Sale: May 19, 2026
208 pages
ISBN: 1771514892
EAN: 9781771514897
Kindle: B0FSF437JP
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Fiction Family Life
Like many passionate cooks, Luca Russo learned to love food at his mother’s elbow. But Luca’s mother is no ordinary cook: she’s a talented sous-chef at their renowned Toronto restaurant, and Luca finds himself daydreaming less about the dishes he’ll conjure up than about winning a Michelin Star. When Luca’s mother finally tires of Canadian frigidness and takes her talents back to her hometown in Sicily, Russo is sure his prospects are obliterated, until a journalist suggests his long-lost father, once a renowned cook in his own right, may be alive and living on the West Coast—not lost, as he once thought, to the fire that destroyed his parents’ first restaurant. Without cash or company, Luca sets out to find his father, a quest that brings the young cook face-to-face drug-running tree-planters, wild bears, treacherous waves, forest fires, mouth-watering recipes, and the harrowing secrets that split his family. Burnt Ends takes the reader on a culinary adventure across Canada, following one cook’s journey to discover the land he comes from and the land he was raised on, and to understand what that means when he rolls up his sleeves to get cooking.
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