{"product_id":"9781101442364","title":"Simply from Scratch","description":"Alicia Bessette writes with compassion and tenderness to illuminate the many unexpected ways people save each others' lives every day-often without even knowing it. Poignant, bittersweet, and strikingly honest, \u003ci\u003eSimply from Scratch\u003c\/i\u003e is a radiant celebration of friendship and the strength of the human spirit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rose-Ellen (\"Zell\") Carmichael Roy wears her late husband Nick's camouflage apron even when she's not in the kitchen. That's her widow style. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's been over a year since Nick died tragically during a post-Katrina relief mission in New Orleans. Long enough, according to the grief pamphlets, to have begun to move on with her life. But Zell is still unable to enter her attic, which is full of Nick memories. She hasn't even turned on her oven because cooking was Nick's chore. That is, until she decides to enter the first annual \u003ci\u003eDesserts that Warm the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e baking contest, hoping to donate the grand prize to Katrina survivors in Nick's memory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, Zell's nine-year-old neighbor, Ingrid Knox, is learning to cope with the loneliness of growing up without a mother. With an imagination as big as her heart, Ingrid treasures her doting father but begins to plot how she will meet the woman who abandoned her so many years ago. When an embarrassing baking mishap brings Zell and Ingrid together, they form an unlikely friendship that will alter both of their lives forever. Together, and with the help of a lively and loveable cast of friends and family, Zell and Ingrid embark on winning the \u003ci\u003eDesserts that Warm the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e contest - and learn that through the many sorrows and joys of life, with a little bit of flour and a pinch of love, anything is possible.","brand":"Penguin Group (USA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120827089136,"sku":"9781101442364","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101442364_p0.jpg?v=1763686676","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101442364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}