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"Barbara Flores, a successful designer and cookbook author vows to keep her family and her thirty-year marriage intact. When her Latin lover professor husband dumps her for a younger woman, she plots an over-my-dead-body warpath against the interloper--a thirtyish Halle-Berry-look-alike. Conflicting advice comes to her family and friends: the white suburban crowd eggs her to ""forget that no-good cheater,"" and her Hispanic amigas urge her to lure him back home with homemade enchiladas, rosary petitions, and if all else fails, witchcraft. With relentless honesty and humor, Flores invites us to witness how lifelong marital commitments can shatter, shift, and reshape our very core. Yet this life-affirming memoir proves the bonds of family can heroically survive its most threatening challenges: infidelity, bi-cultural chasms, and Viagra."

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"""The wild events--hair-pulling fights between the two women--come alive on the page. The author's courage and unusual honesty result in a transformation where she shines through both as a woman and as a writer. Brava!"" --Susan Cheever ""Full of life, vivacious, often hilarious, and never less than engaging."" --Phillip Lopate"

The wild events--hair-pulling fights between the two women--come alive on the page. The author's courage and unusual honesty result in a transformation where she shines through both as a woman and as a writer. Brava! --Susan Cheever Full of life, vivacious, often hilarious, and never less than engaging. --Phillip Lopate

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Barbara Flores is known internationally as the designer of over thirty iconic food art posters for Ten Speed Press. She has authored three nonfiction books: Confusion Is a State of Grace, The Great Sunflower Book, and The Great Book of Pears, which was received an IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) award. Her literary work has appeared in many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Diablo and More magazine. Her teaching (writing) career expands twenty years at colleges on both coasts including UC Berkeley Extension, Moraga College, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Flores has spoken at literary and food events, and in the media, including a guest spot on NPR's Splendid Table. She lives with her husband and dog, Pepper, in Palm Beach, Florida, and in Livermore, California.

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