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Comfort Food

Gus Simpson is TV's premier chef, but at 50, she's reached her sell-by date (at least in the view of her employer). Forced to shake things up by hosting a new program with a young Latina beauty pageant queen, she finds herself not only re-examining her life as a widow and single mother, but embracing change -- fiscal, emotional and career -- in ways she could have never anticipated.

I read this shortly after the death of my boyfriend, and not only did the theme of a fellow widow ring true with me, but I was reminded of the abiding value of what some deride as "chick lit." It may not be Dostoyevsky, but light and sweet is sometimes just the ticket.
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