Piglet: A Novel [Paperback]

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If I owned a bookstore, Id hand-sellPigletto everyone.
Jennifer Weiner,The New York Times Book Review

A sensuous (The New Yorker) debut about women's ambitions and appetitesand the truth about having it all

Outside of a childhood nickname she cant shake, Piglets rather pleased with how her lifes turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor, shes got lovely friends and a handsome fianc?, Kit, whose rarefied family she (mostly) likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals shes always cooking.

But when Kit confesses a horrible betrayal two weeks before theyre set to be married, Piglet finds herself suddenly . . . hungry. Torn between a life shes always wanted and the ravenousness that comes with not getting what she knows she deserves, Piglet is, by the day of her wedding, undone, but also ready to look beyond the lies we tell ourselves to get by.

A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want,Pigletis both an examination of womens often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life makes for us.

One of NPRs 2024 Books We Love
An IndieNext Pick for March 2024
Shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize
Named one ofElles Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024
Named a Best Book of February 2024 byPeople Magazine
Named a Mustl30