Literary comfort food may be straightforward, but it also can contain great depths.
When the world appears to be going haywire — And when isn’t it these days? — I turn to the kinds of books I think of as “literary comfort food.”, filling the reader with a feeling of warmth and contentment, the literary equivalent of meatloaf, or mac and cheese.
Colwin died at the young age of 48, but she has a wonderful inheritor working in a similar register in Katherine Heiny who, in “Early Morning Riser” manages to turn the seemingly mundane domestic goings-on of Jane, a small-town Michigan schoolteacher, into page-turning, highly involving, comic drama. Jane is in a relationship with Duncan who has been in previous relationships with just about every woman in town.
Last is the hot-off-the-presses “Search” by Michelle Huneven, my newest addition to the comfort foods pantheon. Huneven is one of my favorite working novelists, and in “Search” she delivers a story told from the perspective of Dana Potowski, a restaurant critic and writer who is part of a search committee selecting a new minister for her Unitarian Universalist church in Southern California.
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