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Search by Michelle Huneven
An NPR Best Book of 2022"Delectable. . . Huneven treats us to a savory plot that blends spiritual yearnings with earthly pleasures. Forks out!" --Oprah Daily
From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she's asked to join the church search committee for a new minister and agrees, resolving to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidates--and becomes its own media sensation.
Dana had good material to work with: the committee is a wide-ranging mix of Unitarian Universalist congregants, and their candidates range from a baker and microbrew master/pastor to a reverend who identifies as both a witch and an environmental warrior. Although she may have been ambivalent about joining the committee, Dana finds that she cares deeply about the fate of this institution and she will fight the entire committee, if necessary, to win the day for her side. This wry and wise tale will speak to anyone who has ever gone searching.
Huneven, Michelle: - Michelle Huneven is the author of Blame, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Jamesland, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a winner of the Southern California Bookseller's Award for Fiction; and Round Rock. She received an MFA at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. For many years her day job was reviewing restaurants and writing about food for the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, Gourmet, and other publications. Michelle lives in California with her husband.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780593300077 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593300076 |
| Title | Search |
| Author | Michelle Huneven |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |