Jacobs follows The Friday Night Knitting Club
with another multigenerational tale, this time on the foodie circuit. Popular Cooking with Gusto!
host Augusta “Gus” Simpson, a widowed mother of two adult daughters who’s about to turn 50, is tiring of her many obligations, which include throwing an annual birthday bash for herself. That trial pales, however, in comparison with the introduction of saucy former beauty queen and YouTube star Carmen Vega as Gus’s cohost: Carmen is younger, hotter and very tight with the boss. It’s soon apparent on the set that this new situation isn’t working, so the two are packed off, along with a forgettable cast of secondaries, to a corporate team-building weekend, complete with New Age guide. When the resort’s head chef calls in sick, a team-building opportunity presents itself. Jacobs gives Gus a reasonable love interest and provides the requisite bickering and backstabbing, but the foodie moments lack passion, and the results yield no stars. (May)
Details
Reviewed on: 03/10/2008
Genre: Fiction
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-4332-3476-7
Compact Disc - 9 pages - 978-0-14-314316-1
Library Binding - 412 pages - 978-1-60285-199-3
Mass Market Paperbound - 373 pages - 978-0-425-26996-1
Open Ebook - 978-1-4362-1707-1
Open Ebook - 384 pages - 978-1-4406-3065-1
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Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 978-1-4362-1708-8
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