Tender at The Bone & Comfort Me with Apples (4/5)
by Ruth Reichl
Tender at The Bone is a hilarious, light-hearted account of Ruth Reichl’s living with a manic-depressive mother, dealing with low self-confidence, and getting to know food. It is the first of the series, published in 1999. Comfort Me with Apples, the second installation published in 2002, provides a more honest, open and personal story. Some parts, particularly during her affairs and breakdown of her marriage, are actually so sensually graphic and personal they probably belong more to a harlequin novels than a memoir of a living public person. (continue…)
