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...