You Have Left the Planned Route | Melissa Firman

You Have Left the Planned Route | Melissa Firman

All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love and Food by Sheila Squillante

A memoir-in-essays about father loss, food, and time.

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Melissa Firman
Apr 20, 2024
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Sheila Squillante had me at the subtitle. Grief, love, and food pretty much defines my entire life. Moreover, because I know Sheila and (book reviewer’s disclaimer here) consider her a friend, I knew this memoir-in-essays would be a literary smorgasbord.

Spoiler: it is.

We share several commonalities, Sheila and me. We are children of the ‘80s, Gen Xers…

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