Misconduct of the Heart

Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humorous book

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy s, a small chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter.

In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate s ''restructuring'' to save her kitchen, while trying to learn to forgive herself and maybe allow some love back into her life. Stevie s biting, hilarious take on her own and others foibles will make you cheer and will have you loving Misconduct of the Heart (in the immortal words of Stevie s best line cook) ''like never tomorrow.''