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Ballantine Books
March 2005
On Sale: March 1, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 0345460987
EAN: 9780345460981
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Fiction
In the small coastal town of Hubbard, Oregon, your man may
let you down, your boss may let you down, life may let you
down . . . but your best friend never will.
Welcome
to Hubbard, where Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy have been
best friends since childhood. Now in their early thirties,
both are grappling to come to terms with their age and
station in life. As they struggle to make ends meet and
provide for their children and the good-hearted but
unreliable men in their lives, they take jobs cooking for a
brand-new upscale restaurant, Souperior's Cafe, starting
from scratch every morning to produce gallons of fresh soup
from local recipes. The proprietors of the cafe, Nadine and
Gordon, are fraternal twins from Los Angeles with
adjustments of their own to make, but Rose’s warmth and the
quality of the women’s soups quickly make them indispensable
despite Petie’s abrupt manner and prickly ways.
The
strains of daily life are never far, however, and the past
takes its toll on the women. Petie’s childhood as the
daughter of the town drunk—a subject she won't talk
about—keeps her at a distance from even her best friend,
until an unexpected romance threatens to crack her tough
exterior. And despite Rose's loving personality, the only
man in her life is a loner fisherman who spends only a few
months of the year in town.
In this fishing village,
friends are for life and love comes in the most unexpected
ways. As the novel draws together lovers, husbands,
employers, friends, and family, each woman finds
possibilities for love and even grace that she had never
imagined.
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