The Thing About Leftovers

C. C. Pain associates humor and hope in a novel about divorce and integration.

Fizzy is a very nice girl in the south, I'd like to be perfect. And I won the Southern Living cuisine. Still, her parents divorced and everything in her life changed, so the perfect part is difficult. More...

"It is only the word family that makes me sick of my desire," C, According to Fingerie Russo, the protagonist of the novel about divorce and mixed family navigation written by Pain and published by Nancy Poulsen Books, a young penguin reader. When asked why she wrote "About the leftovers", this is what Pain said: I am not alone. I read that over 80% of parents who divorced are remarried within 2 years, while over 50% of marriages end in divorce. As a result, I live in homes where millions of people are mixed. Some of them are children. Some of these children feel loneliness, fear, rejection, worthlessness, love, and / or immobility. Most of them can not see it today. I wrote this book to let the children know that they are not alone; they are not cute, they are not worth it, it will be better.

Let's fly to the day after Thanksgiving. I am with a few friends, we are talking about the delight and perfection of the leftovers. My friend Riley told me that she likes to leave all the remains from turkey, stuffing, potatoes to gravy, then put it all in slow cookware with some chicken soup . Do you remember how I did not like things like slow cookers before 100 words? I changed my mind. I thought about what she said, and then I remembered all the different recipes I saw a few weeks ago. I noticed that there are some basic matters that can be boiled ... 呃, stew, and need not be accurate when making it. For example, you can put all the Thanksgiving leftovers in a slow cooker and make it stew. Ideal for crispy bread.

From all these things, I do not want to give the impression that "About leftovers" is not a book that wrote information with great neon light. I asked Fizzy to honestly talk to her when she was staying late at night sharing a secret to an intimate and most reliable friend - there was a bucket of ice cream. Fizzy did not try to alleviate or hide these difficulties, but she shared the truth with many hopes and humor.