Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.

Sent to itpdx for the For the Love of Books readathon.

Thank you catsalive for the Readathon prize. I am looking forward to it.

This reads like a stand up routine—my husband’s first wife was so stingy she.... But it is comedic only to keep from overwhelming sadness as the narrator tries to figure out what has gone wrong in her marriage when she is 7 months pregnant with her second child

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