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Fannie Flagg meets Elin Hilderbrand in this deliciously charming debut novel about fried chicken, family feuds, and the foibles of the human heart. In the tiny town of Merinac, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to be the restaurant that serves up the best fried chicken in Kansas--and the legendary bad blood between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. But there's one person in Merinac who can't pick a side. Amanda Moore grew up working the counter at Mimi's before she married Frannie's scion Frank Pogociello in a scandal that rocked the town. Now a widow at thirty-five, Amanda runs Frannie's even as she tries to keep an eye on her reclusive mother, who's struggling to keep Mimi's afloat. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends out an SOS to Food Wars, the sizzling hot reality show that promises $100,000 to the winner of their famous Restaurant Wars competition. But she could never have predicted that the TV crew's arrival would launch both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire... The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to return to Merinac, and to the family she's been semi-estranged from since she hightailed it out of town at eighteen. But when her career implodes, Food Wars suddenly becomes her best chance to step back into the limelight. Armed with ruthless organizational skills and an obsession with keeping up appearances, Mae is certain she can help her mother make the fading Mimi's look good. And if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's, well, all's fair in love and show business. But with the cameras documenting both families' every move, and the Food Wars producers digging for dirt, it's only a matter of time before old secrets resurface and the bonds of sisterhood are tested once and for all.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Dell'antonia, Kj
- ISBN: 9780593085141
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.10 x 0.90
- Number Of Pages: 352
- Publication Year: 2020
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English
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“All’s fair in love and Food Wars, right?”
Jennifer E. - 5 years 9 months ago“This has everything people love. Family, a little fighting, a daughter coming through for her mother, puppies...Organizing, food, country living...made for television...It starts out as Food Wars, but it comes down to Family Wars, every time...That’s part of why this makes a good Food War. You know, sisters. Fighting….It was hard not to want what your sister had.” But “All’s fair in love and Food Wars, right?” Until the impossible meets the unbearable and crashes into the unthinkable. “The spaces around us reflect the spaces inside us, and when those things don’t go together, that’s how we know we need to make a change...I always figured that if I had clear counters, a clear mind would just naturally follow--and it didn’t...Who needs meditation when you have clean drawers?...Clean spaces, calm minds--they’re a journey, not a destination....Will the very place she wanted to erase from her past help her find her way? Wherever you are on your journey, reading The Chicken Sisters is sure to inspire you “to work on your own spaces--inside and out.” “Who will ultimately win...the right to declare themselves the Fried Chicken Food War Champion? Will it be Frannie’s, where the drinks are flowing and the regulars are happily biting into the old familiar chicken...or will it be Mimi’s, where the spokespuppies have a new home and all’s right in the world?...Or will they be the only Food Wars feud to ever end in a peace treaty?...New start, new name...Introducing ‘The Chicken Sisters, established 1886. Mimi’s started it, and Frannie’s kept it going. We all worked it out. While you were snoring.”