Memoir Of The Sunday Brunch

Recently I received a copy of Memoir Of The Sunday Brunch. I had no idea it was coming when it arrived at my house. Here’s some info on this book from the book jacket, in case it’s the type of book that you are interested in. It is not a cookbook.

Memoir of the Sunday Brunch

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Algonquin Books (November 13, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 161620172X
• ISBN-13: 978-1616201722
• Cpver price $13.95

At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at her father’s Milwaukee-based restaurant, where she and her eight older siblings before her did service in a situation of controlled chaos, learning the ropes of the family business and, more important, learning life lessons that would shape them for all the years to come. In her wry memoir, she looks back on those formative years, a time not just of growing up but, ultimately, of becoming a source of strength and support as the world her father knew began to change into a tougher, less welcoming place.

Part coming-of-age story à la The Tender Bar, part win- dow into the mysteries of the restaurant business à la Kitchen Confidential, Julie Pandl provides tender wisdom about the bonds between fathers and daughters and about the simple pleasures that lie in the daily ritual of breaking bread. This honest and exuberant memoir marks the debut of a writer who discovers that humor exists in even the smallest details of our lives and that the biggest moments we ever experience can happen behind the pancake station at the Sunday brunch.

Julia Pandl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she still lives and works. Memoir of the Sunday Brunch is her first book. When she is not writing and otherwise working, she moonlights as a stand-up comic. Author website: www.juliapandl.com.

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