The chicken sisters /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020Description: 344 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593085141
- 0593085140
- 813/.6 23
- PS3604.E444637 C48 2020
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For a century two rival chicken shacks in Merinac, Kansas, have been vying to serve the best fried chicken in the state, and a feud between the two families has lasted as long. When Amanda falls in love with a man from the rival chicken shack, she scandalously changes sides and starts working for her family's nemesis. Tired of being stuck in the middle, she recruits her Brooklyn-based sister to move back to Kansas and join her on reality TV show Food Wars to settle the feud. Yet when family secrets become public, the sisters must choose: will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state--and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . .
The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, helping the fading Mimi's look good on Food Wars becomes Mae's best chance to reclaim the limelight--even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage? --amazon.com
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Library Journal Review
DEBUT NOVEL Merinac, KS, has two fried chicken joints, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's. Originally started by sisters, the restaurants have a deep history and rivalry. Owned by the Moore family, Mimi's has kept true to its original old-fashioned menu, while Frannie's, run by the Pogociello family, has expanded to include a more modern menu and bar. Amanda Moore switched allegiances when she married Frank Pogociello. Her mother owns Mimi's, but now Amanda works at Frannie's. Amanda contacts the producers of the reality television show Food Wars and suggests that they host a fried chicken cook-off between the two restaurants. The producers accept, and with $100,000 at stake for the winner, Frannie's and Mimi's are both in it to win it. When Amanda's estranged sister Mae, a reality television star, returns to Merinac to throw her support behind Mimi's, the Food Wars episode quickly becomes about much more than fried chicken. With a little prodding from the show's producer, long-held family secrets are revealed, pitting sister against sister. VERDICT Mae and Amanda are spirited characters, and their foibles are told with care and humor. Recommended for Food Network and HGTV watchers, this first novel is plucky, heartwarming, and a welcome distraction from the news of the day.--Emily Hamstra, SeattleBooklist Review
Rival fried chicken restaurants Mimi's and Frannie's have been staples of a small Kansas town since 1886. Initially run by sisters, the restaurants become even more intertwined when Amanda, daughter of the owner of Mimi's, marries the son of Frannie's owner. Forbidden to ever enter Mimi's again after the marriage, Amanda instead works for Frannie's. Though she was widowed young, Amanda is happy if restless. This uneasiness causes her to apply for Food Wars, a reality TV show that pits rival restaurants against each other. When Food Wars picks them, Amanda is ecstatic. She is less than happy with the reappearance of her sister Mae. Mae was just fired from her own reality show, Sparkling. Mae is hoping that an appearance on Food Wars will be her ticket back to TV, and she throws herself into helping Mimi win. As the sisters battle, old wounds resurface, and secrets they hoped to hide from the cameras are revealed. Chicken Sisters is a charming first novel about family, regrets, and second chances. Dell'Antonia deftly deals with issues of mental illness, marriage troubles, and dreams deferred, all the while telling a funny satire of reality TV. An utter delight from start to finish.Kirkus Book Review
Rival restaurants (and sisters) compete on a reality TV show, but things don't go quite as planned. Merinac, Kansas, may be a small town, but it's been supporting two fried chicken restaurants for years. Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's were started generations ago by sisters, but now they're run by competing families, the Moores and the Pogociellos. Amanda Moore grew up working for her mother, Barbara, at the more casual chicken shack, Mimi's, but then she married Frank Pogociello and switched over to the fancier Chicken Frannie's team, which boasts table service and fried mozzarella sticks. Now Amanda isn't even allowed inside Mimi's, and her relationship with her mother is strained--and that's not even to mention her relationship with her sister, Mae, who fled Merinac the second she could and started a career as a Marie Kondo--eqsue professional organizer with a decluttering book and a television show called Sparkling. When Amanda hears about the reality show Food Wars, she thinks it could bring big business to Merinac--so she applies, and soon the TV crew has descended upon the town to figure out once and for all which restaurant has the best chicken (and which family will win $100,000). Mae even returns home to support their mother, help out at Mimi's, and possibly rehabilitate her own career. Dell'Antonia writes convincingly and sympathetically about complicated family relationships, giving Mae and Amanda each relatable flaws. The Food Wars scenes are a fun peek behind the curtain of the reality TV world, and the small-town warmth of Merinac is comfortingly quirky. A charming and satisfying story about family bonds that will make meat eaters everywhere crave fried chicken. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
KJ Dell'Antonia is the former editor of Motherlode and current contributor to The New York Times , as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent . She lives with her family on a small farm in Lyme, New Hampshire, but retains an abiding love for her childhood in Texas and Kansas.There are no comments on this title.