Bread for the Table Kindle Edition by Tara Botel Doherty

Book Description...

"Bread for the Table relates a single day in the life of Sage a 30-year-old aspiring jewelry designer working as a waitress in a pseudo New York deli in Los Angeles. A postcard from her mother triggers a series of flashbacks, which bring Sage's life into focus. 

She remembers her protector – dear older sister, Rose of Sharon and her untimely death; her remote father, whose only communication was reading passages from novels written by John Steinbeck; her grandmother, the only consistent figure in Sage's life; and her mother.

The last time Sage and her mother shared an intimate moment was stirring a pot of soup shortly after Rose of Sharon's death. Her mother's last instructions before she went to buy bread to complement the soup were to keep stirring the soup so it wouldn't burn. Dutifully Sage stirred, but her mother never returned. She was five years old. Now she has received a postcard from a woman she hasn't seen in twenty-five years."

Title:  Bread for the Table

Author:  Tara Botel Doherty

Publisher:  Pinehurst Literary Press                  

Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean

Rating:  Four

Review:

"Bread for the Table" by Tara Botel Doherty

My Thoughts....

Good Read!  This is definitely one of those reads that will be with you long after the read.  The story of Sage who had received a post card from her mother whom she hadn't had any connection to for over twenty five years. From the 'post cards will set into motion a chain of memories,[flashbacks] particularly involving her estranged mother.' With all of this the reader gets to see Sage's past and all of the pain that she went through to the present time.  This author gives the reader quite a read of just how painful ones life can certainly be as Sages complicated life comes back to her which also involved her sister, her father and her grandmother and how each one played in the role of changing her destiny.'  By the end the reader has been presented a heart warming story that will touch ones heart from this journey Sage's life. 

 "I received this book for free and voluntarily reviewed it."