{"product_id":"9780996247450","title":"Sugar and Sice and All Those Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCooking a wonderful meal is an art. An act of love. An act of grace. A gift that affirms and gives life—not only does it nurture those who partake of the meal; it also feeds the soul of the creator. These are lessons Gina learns from her mother, daughter of an unfortunate French chef.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGina is a young woman born to poor parents, a nobody keen to taste life outside the world she was born into. A world that exposes her to fascinating people gripped by dark motives. Her passion for cooking is all she has to help her navigate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe gets lucky when she’s chosen to cook at a Michelin-starred restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area where customers belong to a privileged class with money to spare for a dinner of inventive dishes costing hundreds of dollars. In this heady, scintillating atmosphere, she meets new friends and new challenges—pastry chef Marcia, filthy rich client Leon, and Brent, a brooding homicide detective. This new world, it turns out, is also one of unexpected danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan the lessons Gina learned from her mother about cooking and life help her survive and thrive in this other world of privilege, pleasure, and menace?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sojourner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133831954672,"sku":"9780996247450","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996247450_p0.jpg?v=1763899988","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996247450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}