Book Review: ‘Sugar And Salt: A Novel’ By Susan Wiggs

Margot Sutton has opened he own restauran in San Francisco and it’s called Salt. She shares the kitchen space with the bakery next door called Sugar, run by Jerome and owned by his Mother Ida, a spitfire of a woman. On this night she’s getting an award for Salt and is served with papers, which is the set up for the novel. We go back in time and learn how she started the restaurant and then go back to her childhood and early years in Texas. She learned to cook from her mother, who died suddenly when she was 16 years old. Over the years in Texas she had some serious legal and moral issues that she had to go through. And in present time San Francisco, she and Jerome fall in love, until her sorted, secret past comes out and it could tear them apart. Jerome also finds out a shocking secret about his past and we learn about Ida’s life and she may even find a lost love. Nobody writes these kind of character driven novels like Susan Wiggs. I always look forward to her novels and this is another great novel that looks at social issues in a non-judgemental way. This book will make you hungry and emotionally spent (in a good way) by the time you finish it.

You can pick up Sugar and Salt in stores on Tuesday, July 26th from William Morrow.