The cookbook collector & Freedom

"Both books are concerned with authenticity, and both books’ protagonists are obsessed with environmental preservation

Both are loose, baggy novels that move from character to character and year to year, with great big imaginative sweeps.

 Both books center around a family (the Berglunds, the Bachs), 

both books climax with a love triangle and a trip to a place of environmental crisis, and conclude with a violent death and the consolation of marriage.  

Both novels have big canvases that the writers attack with comic gusto.  

 Both novels are really books about value, both material and moral. 

Both are addictive reading. I couldn’t put either one down." 

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