Publisher: New York: Berkley, 2019
Pages: 304
It's been seven years since Natalie Tan left home to become a chef against her mother's wishes. Back in town to settle her mother's affairs upon her passing, Natalie discovers that the vibrant San Francisco Chinatown neighbourhood of her childhood is not as she remembers. Run down and struggling, the suburb is now dotted with shuttered businesses and uninhabited homes. She also learns that she has inherited her grandmother's long boarded-up restaurant.
When the neighbourhood seer predicts that Natalie must cook three dishes from her grandmother's cookbook to help her struggling neighbours and successfully open the restaurant, she embarks on the difficult road to restore her family legacy and revive her ailing neighbourhood.
Readers will delight in Lim's atmospheric descriptions of San Francisco's Chinatown, and feel at home amongst the warm and quirky characters of Natalie's neighbourhood. This is a heartfelt ode to the magic of family, culture and, of course, food.
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