Tastes Like Seeing God: A Novel

The Bear meets Real Americans in this coming-of-age story that'll make you hungry-for food, for life, for forging your own path

In the days following the accidental death of her brother, an up and coming chef, Jessie Wong is adrift and angry: at Tommy, for dying; at her parents for their silence; and at the confines of her conservative Christian Chinese upbringing. Then Jessie finds a list in Tommy's handwriting of the five meals that "taste like seeing God." Was his phrasing blasphemy, or a...