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In some ways, I'm not sure what to think of this book. I picked it up because it was about food, love, and family... and it is. Though it deals with some hard stuff (relationships, cutting, distant parents, etc.) is it has a strangely hopeful ending which is one of the main selling points of this novel for me. It's not a book that I fell in love with, and though the characters could have been better developed, or at least their relationships explored more, it is hauntingly good.

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2.0

I'm not sure what drew me to this book or what I was expecting, but...did not like. Most of the characters are insufferable, and all the connections they think they are making are so obviously wrong and the twists and "big reveals" not very surprising or well-handled. And parts were actually difficult to read, I didn't realize I was so squeamish about cutting. Blehhhhh.

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4.0

Tomorrow there will be Apricots is a portrait in sadness. Lorca is a 14-year-old girl who is trying to gain the attention of her distant mother, who is a chef, and so turns to Victoria, an Iraqi woman who once owned a popular restaurant in the neighborhood and is now offering cooking classes. Her husband has recently died and she is haunted by his loss and their past. Lorca signs up for the class and when the two meet, there is the tentative sensation of familiarity and recognition. They begin to cook together and enough of each one’s story comes out that, while their fear leaves them stilted and closed, their hearts begin to open.

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