Mother for Dinner
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
An outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers.




An outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers.
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Colin Singleton always falls for girls named Katherine, and he's been dumped by all of them. Letting expectations go and allowing love in are part of Colin's amusing quest to find his missing piece and avenge dumpees everywhere.
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives in a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.