FATES AND FURIES

The acclaim for this National Book Award finalist - and Obama's favorite book of 2015 - is well deserved. It's the dual-perspective picture of a marriage, told in two parts with two disparate viewpoints. The book's descriptions of love, obsession, narcissism, desperation, self-loathing and adoration all leave us wondering how two people could live so close together with their respective senses of reality so far apart.
There are very few positive food mentions in this often-dark novel. One main character has an unfortunate childhood nickname referencing pie, so here's what I thought that pie might look like in real life. Mine was much sweeter than the nickname and was gone in an instant.