Making Piece

A memoir of love, loss and pie

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Pub Date Mar 27 2012 | Archive Date Oct 10 2012
Harlequin | HarlequinNonfiction

Description

A memoir of love, loss and pie.

“You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It’s bitter. It’s messy. It’s got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn’t perfect, it still turns out okay in the end.”

When journalist Beth M. Howard’s young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—whether fi lming a documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of Los Angeles—Beth uses pie as a way to fi nd purpose. Howard eventually returns to her Iowa roots and creates the perfect synergy between two of America’s greatest icons—pie and the American Gothic House, the little farmhouse immortalized in Grant Wood’s famous painting, where she now lives and runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand.

Making Piece powerfully shows how one courageous woman triumphs over tragedy. This beautifully written memoir is, ultimately, about hope. It’s about the journey of healing and recovery, of facing fears, fi nding meaning in life again, and moving forward with purpose and, eventually, joy. It’s about the nourishment of the heart and soul that comes from the simple act of giving to others, like baking a homemade pie and sharing it with someone whose
pain is even greater than your own. And it tells of the role of fate, second chances and the strength found in community.

About the author:

beth howard is a writer, blogger and pie baker. In 2001, at the height of the dot-com boom, she quit a lucrative web-producing job to bake pies at a gourmet deli in Malibu, California. She started her popular blog, www.theworldneedsmorepie.com, in 2007. Beth lives in Eldon, Iowa, in the famous American Gothic House, where she runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand, writes and teaches pie baking.

A memoir of love, loss and pie.

“You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It’s bitter. It’s messy. It’s got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in...


Advance Praise

“Beth Howard describes with warmth and wit how the bitter events in life are set off by the sweet ones–much like
the ingredients of a good recipe. Making Piece is a moving account of love and loss.”
–Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

“Beth Howard describes with warmth and wit how the bitter events in life are set off by the sweet ones–much like
the ingredients of a good recipe. Making Piece is a moving account of love and loss.”
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