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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)

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Readers

21/100

Critics

81/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Kate Lebo

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Date:

April 6, 2021

Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo blends the culinary, medical, and personal in a book of lyrical essays, accompanied by recipes.

What The Reviewers Say

Alex Beggs,
The New York Times Book Review
... darkly funny.
Sophie Morris,
iNews
... [a] blend of richly researched food history, gentle memoir and left-field recipe book.
Annie Bostrom,
Booklist
Lebo undertakes an intriguing creative exercise in this wonder-filled book.
Meagan Storey,
Library Journal
Lebo begins her latest book by perfectly capturing the difference between reading and executing recipes.