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Title: BREAD FOR THE TABLE
Author: Tara Botel Doherty
Publisher: Pinehurst Literary Press
Pages: 232
Genre: Literary/Women’s Fiction

Bread for the Table relates a single day in the life of Sage a 30-year-old aspiring jewelry designer working as a waitress in a pseudo New York deli in Los Angeles. A postcard from her mother triggers a series of flashbacks, which bring Sage’s life into focus.
She remembers her protector – dear older sister, Rose of Sharon and her untimely death; her remote father, whose only communication was reading passages from novels written by John Steinbeck; her grandmother, the only consistent figure in Sage’s life; and her mother.
The last time Sage and her mother shared an intimate moment was stirring a pot of soup shortly after Rose of Sharon’s death. Her mother’s last instructions before she went to buy bread to complement the soup were to keep stirring the soup so it wouldn’t burn. Dutifully Sage stirred, but her mother never returned. She was five years old. Now she has received a postcard from a woman she hasn’t seen in twenty-five years.

THE AUTHOR

Tara Botel Doherty was born in Los Angeles. She was raised by her grandmother and mother blocks away from famed Hollywood Boulevard. It was a Bohemian upbringing filled with art, dance, and guitar lessons and movie sets where her father worked as a lighting technician. This environment helped generate her love of the arts, especially books and writing. She wrote her first book in the first grade. Educated in both public and parochial schools where the fundamentals of perseverance and patience were drilled into her, Tara understood the work ethic. She spends her days and nights teaching English in the San Fernando Valley. Now residing up in the Santa Clarita Valley, aka the 'Rita with her husband and daughter, she writes regularly about her adventures in Hollywood.

MY THOUGHTS

One day in the life of a 30 year old, who wants to design jewelry but is waitressing in a deli in L.A.

We all have wondered from time to time, if this is all there is? Will it never get any better? Even if you have everything you think you want or if you have nothing and are working hard, we all have felt at one time or another, Is this the best there is? This is everyday reality for Sage, only thirty years old, with her whole life ahead of her. But she wonders if this is as good as it gets. She feels stuck in her waitress job and it seems that her co-workers only remind her of her hopelessness.

She had dreams, dreams of becoming a jewelry designer but that ended by her boyfriend who abused her. Now, maybe everyone is right. This is as good as it gets.

But something happens to make Sage think. She hasn't seen her mother for twenty five years. She had walked out to go to the store and never returned.

The author tells the story with pop up thoughts, flashbacks as such. With those flashbacks, the story of Sage is pieced together like a jig saw puzzle. We get a piece here and a piece there and as we turn the pages, the pieces begin to fit together. Sage is a hurt, fractured woman. Perhaps you can relate to her. That makes her real. She has real problems and real doubts about herself and her life. Especially where she is headed. As you read, you will stop for a moment and reflect. Perhaps on yourself, someone you know or on Sage. Your heart cries for Sage from the time her mother left to get a loaf of bread and never returned. Sage goes through such bottom of the gut emotions and you as the reader, will too. She doubts if she is loved, wanted by anyone, has anything to offer or if she even has hope for her dreams.
The author shows how one, just one out of many, can be changed for their entire life by events that start when they are young and carry through adulthood. The problem is, sometimes they don't get better, they grow and we have to find some way to overcome, not forget, but overcome and go forward.

Will Sage find hope when she leaves her abusive boyfriend and her mother returns? Is there a chance to repair the relationship with her mother after all the pain and time?
All it takes is one person in the family to make a lapse in judgement and it snowballs. It begins to affect everyone in the family in different ways.
The author has given the reader a real gift in this book. True, it's fiction, but possibly you can relate. A broken, hurt, saddened woman and how she got there. Is there a place for Sage? Will she find love? Will she find that it can get better? What affect will the postcard from her estranged mother have on Sage's life? Read this heart touching book and see what happens to Sage and the ones around her.

I received a copy of this book from the author and PUYB and voluntarily decided to review it.

I would give this book 5 STARS.

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