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New Harvest
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 0544114396
EAN: 9780544114395
Kindle: B00DQC9HBW
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Fiction | Contemporary
Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her
floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her
childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself
face-to-face with the twin headaches she’s avoided her
entire adult life: her mother’s drinking problem and the
machinations of her father’s artisanal soy sauce business. Surrounded by family, Gretchen struggles with the tension
between personal ambition and filial duty, but still finds
time to explore a new romance with the son of a client, an
attractive man of few words. When an old American friend
comes to town, the two of them are pulled into the
controversy surrounding Gretchen’s cousin, the only male
grandchild and the heir apparent to Lin’s Soy Sauce. In the
midst of increasing pressure from her father to remain
permanently in Singapore—and pressure from her mother to do
just the opposite—Gretchen must decide whether she will
return to her marriage and her graduate studies at the San
Francisco Conservatory, or sacrifice everything and join her
family’s crusade to spread artisanal soy sauce to the world. Soy Sauce for Beginners reveals the triumphs and
sacrifices that shape one woman’s search for a place to call
home, and the unexpected art and tradition behind the
brewing of a much-used but unsung condiment. The result is a
foodie love story that will give readers a hearty
appreciation for family loyalty and fresh starts.
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