A solitary artisan A legacy of bread-baking And one secret that could collapse her entire identity Liesl McNamaraxs life can be described in one word bread From her earliest memory her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food And now as the owner of Wild Rise bake house Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough nourishing and perfecting her craft But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated Her head baker brings his troubled grandson into the bakeshop as an apprentice Her waitress submits Lieslxs recipes to a popular cable cooking show And the man who delivers her flourxa single father with strange culinary habitsxseems determined to win Lieslxs affection When Wild Rise is featured on television her quiet existence appears a thing of the past And then a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister forces Liesl to confront long-hidden secrets in her familyxs past With her precious heritage crumbling around her the baker must make a choice allow herself to be buried in detachment and remorse or take a leap of faith into a new life Filled with both spiritual and literal nourishment Stones for Bread provides a feast for the senses from award-winning author Christa Parrish A quietly beautiful tale about learning how to accept the past and how to let go of the parts that tie you down xRT Book Reviews stars TOP PICK.
