This is the second Mallery I've read, and I really like her writing. Her stories are more than just your generic chick lit; they're about women. Yes, there are men present, but they're not an alternate point of view. Mallery writes about women and their every day struggles. Sometimes the women find or have men in their lives, but it's simply an added bonus. The stories are about relationships between women and with themselves.This story is about Jenna, a sous chef who decides to open a cooking store when her marriage explodes. It's also about Violet, a woman with a troubled past whom Jenna hires on a whim to help run the store. Just when things are starting to hit their groove, Jenna's birth parents (and aging hippy couple) come barging in to her well structured life. Jenna didn't want her birth parents, didn't go looking for them, but now she's got them. She just has to figure out what to do with them without hurting her "real" parents.I've already started on my next book; another Susan Mallery. Excellent book! I really like Susan Mallery. I'm glad that I found her books! It was a good book about cheating men, men who take advantage of women, men who beat women and get away with it, women who turn their lives around after a very hard childhood, women who find their way after cheating husbands, women who were adopted, and then their birth family shows up and turns their life around. It was a bold move for Jenna to open a kitchen store, and not have an idea about retail. Thankfully, Violet came along to straighten it all out for her. And they became best friends along the way. And Beth and Marshall were always behind Jenna the whole time, and they sort of took in Violet as their own daughter as well.
What do You think about Already Home (2011)?
Just keep writing them, so I can keep reading them.
—Lex
Loved this book. Will read more by this author.
—Mona
