Sweetbitter meets The Bear in bestselling author Liza Palmer’s “fresh, exciting, and necessary” (#1 New York Times bestseller Taylor Jenkins Reid) new novel, FAMILY RESERVATIONS
Lake Union Publishing; April 1, 2024
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A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a darkly witty novel about a family on the edge by the bestselling author of The Nobodies and The F Word.
Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother’s legacy.
On the night of Maren’s annual New Year’s Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It’s a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power―and a trigger for a spiraling descent into paranoia and blind ambition.
As the Winter family’s dissolution begins, so does a journey of competition, love, loyalty, self-preservation, and the need for three women to forge a path of their own.
Features & Reviews
‘Family Reservations’ uses a Bay Area dining icon as a symbol of family trauma
–San Francisco Chronicle
“A beautiful portrait of a fiercely complicated family of women. Oft hilarious, sometimes dysfunctional, and always relatable, this book revels in the messiness of mothers, daughters, and sisters. Reading this exquisite novel made me feel the same way about the Winters that I feel about my own family – which is to say that I loved them and wanted to scream at them in equal measure. I devoured this book. And wish I could devour their recipes!”
—Sarah Watson, creator of The Bold Type