Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal is a novel that really has very little to do with kitchens of the mid-west. We meet Eva Thorvald, the protagonist when she is just a six month old baby and can't get enough heirloom tomatoes at the Farmers Market. However, from there the book jumps around so much and introduces so many other characters, with Eva often on the periphery, we never get to know her deeply, understand, or care about her.
This is an interesting and quirky little book with some great moments, that I really wanted to like, but it never really came together for me. Food is a part of the story all the way through, yet not in the way one would expect. There were some very funny laugh out loud parts, but overall, the book was disappointing.
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