2014 Miami Book Fair | Kate Christensen

Kate Christensen is the author of six novels, and the memoir Blue Plate Special. Her novel The Great Man won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has published reviews and essays in numerous publications, most recently the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, O, Elle, and Gilt Taste. She writes an occasional drinks column for the Wall Street Journal called “With a Twist.” The physical and emotional sensuality that defines Christensen’s fiction resonates throughout the pages of Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites (Random House; $15.95). She unearths memories—sometimes joyful, sometimes painful—of the love between mother and daughter, sister and sister, and husband and wife, and of the times when the bonds of love were broken. Food sustains her as she endures the pain of these ruptures and fuels her determination not to settle for anything less than the love and contentment for which she’s always yearned. A vibrant celebration of life in all its truth and complexity, this book is about embracing the world through the transformative power of food: it’s about listening to your appetites, about having faith, and about learning what is worth holding on to and what is not.

2014 Miami Book Fair