OP: Tender at the Bone (hardcover)

$30 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters

Random House, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine. The first of Ruth Reichl’s memoirs, Tender at the Bone (1998) is the esteemed writer’s vulnerable and often heartbreaking origin story. With a mother suffering mental illness who served spoiled food so frequently as to be dubbed the Queen of Mold, Reichl developed a palate and craving for fine food, not because of her mother but in spite of her. We are offering a Near Fine hardcover, later printing, although you can still get it in paperback . We’d be remiss not to mention her other memoirs ( Comfort Me with Apples , Garlic and Sapphires , and Save Me the Plums )—which are so expertly written that they seamlessly connect as if they were of one long volume.

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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