GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT
Book ID/图书代码： 08900010B34830
English Summary/英文概要： After three years of hard work, Melanie Hoffman thinks that all her lifelong dreams are coming true. To end a lifelong struggle with obesity, she has dieted and exercised diligently to lose half her body weight, while becoming a chef and opening a healthy gourmet take-out café which is just beginning to show a small profit. Then her husband of nearly ten years leaves her. For a woman twice her size. Melanie is now forced to do what no woman of 40 wants to contemplate—start over. With emotions running high and financial pressures looming, Melanie meets Nadia, a 24 year-old rudderless enigma with calico pink hair, infectious energy, and nowhere to live. Bringing Nadia both into her home and into her business is a leap of faith for a woman unused to leaping. But if everything you thought you knew about yourself and your life is upside-down, you have no alternative but to make new, and sometimes scary, choices. In risk lies reward, in her business, in her life and even in love, as a new man enters her world and makes a place for himself. Melanie is slowly finding out that tough times and self-discovery are much like a great meal, infinitely better with good friends at your side.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果妳喜歡電影原著小說《巧克力情人》Like Water for Chocolate，就別錯過這本 Good Enough To Eat！
人生的波盪起伏，就像一道充滿酸甜苦辣的料理。
沒有什麼餐點會比給你一道期待已久的甜美開胃菜後，上的前菜跟主菜盡是苦瓜黃蓮還來得慘忍!
最好的辦法，大概就是翻桌然後重新開始自己的人生吧?
40歲中年女主角梅蘭妮，還得嘗試多少沒吃過的餐點，飽嚐多少的酸辣苦澀，
才能從中慢慢體會出絲絲甘甜，進而享受人生這道料理呢?
經過三年努力節食及持續的運動，使她減掉了身體一半的體重；身為一間健康美食外帶咖啡店的老闆，生意上開始有了盈餘。梅蘭妮感覺她的夢想都已經成真了。但是沒想到，結髮將近10年的先生，居然為了另一個比她胖兩倍的女人離開了她。
梅蘭妮只能被迫做一件40歲的中年女子，完全不會想做的事情--從頭開始。
然後她遇見一位精力旺盛、頭髮染成粉紅色、24歲但無家可歸的女孩娜狄亞。
重頭開始意味著必須獨自一人面對人生帶來的選擇、面對挑戰 (不時膽顫心驚!)。
但是當人落到谷底時，亦是爬坡的開始，隨著生意好轉、生活歸於平穩、甚至愛情降臨時，梅蘭妮開始體會到，失意的那段時光以及再度面對、接受自己的日子，就像是一頓美味的餐點。尤其，若是身旁有好友陪伴就更好。
隨書附贈幾道美食料理，讓您身心靈都得到滿足~~~(Silvia & Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：Good Enough to Eat is like a perfect dish of macaroni and cheese—rich, warm, nuanced, and delicious. And like any great comfort food, Stacey Ballis’s new book is absolutely satisfying.---Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Is the New Black and Such a Pretty Fat
Oh, what a wonderful ride it is.---Elizabeth Flock, New York Times bestselling author of Sleepwalking in Daylight
A toothsome meal of moments, gorgeously written, in warmth and with keen observation, GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT is about so much more than the magic of food; it’s about the magic of life. Pardon the cliché, but you’ll devour it and wish there was more to savor---Stephanie Klein, author of Straight Up and Dirty and Moose
About the Author/作者介绍： Stacey Ballis is the author of several novels, incuding Inappropriate Men, Sleeping Over, Room for Improvement, and the upcoming The Spinster Sisters due out in March of 2007. She is also a contributing author to the anthologies Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, due out in May 2007, and Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, due out in June of 2007.
STACEY BALLIS 史黛西 芭莉絲，從小就發展出對文字及閱讀的愛好，曾經到肯亞教書，過著沒水沒電的生活，而感覺“找回自己”。後來與結婚10多年的先生離異。出版過五本小說。(更多資訊請看她個人網站: http://www.staceyballis.com/)
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