Bibliograph

The restaurant critic's wife, Elizabeth LaBan

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The restaurant critic's wife, Elizabeth LaBan

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The restaurant critic's wife

Oclc number

933294153

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth LaBan

Summary

Lila Soto has a masters degree thats gathering dust, a work-obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly she ended up here. In their new city of Philadelphia, Lilas husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, hes determined to remain anonymous. Soon his preoccupation with anonymity takes over their lives as he tries to limit the familys contact with anyone who might have ties to the foodie world. Meanwhile, Lila craves adult conversation and some relief from the constraints of her homemaker role. With her patience wearing thin, she begins to question everything: her decision to get pregnant again, her break from her career, her marriageeven if leaving her ex-boyfriend was the right thing to do. As Sam becomes more and more fixated on keeping his identity secret, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has completely disappearedand what it will take to get it back

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