The Kitchen Congregation Author:Nora Seton A beautifully rendered reflection on life lessons learned by the author in her mother's kitchen--about loss and renewal, and how women navigate their lives. In dazzling prose, Nora Seton passes on the rich dialogues between women in her life, the shared comfort and pain of motherhood, the bewilderments of men, and favorite recipes--coded love ha... more »nded down through generations in the kitchen, the heart of the home. Sparked by the burgeoning consciousness of young motherhood, Nora Seton illuminates the lives of five women, giving language to their ambition, resignation, self-preservation, and loss. She reaches back through the years to recapture the memory of her brilliant mother, the novelist Cynthia Seton, whose death from cancer inspires her search to articulate the magic of motherhood. Written in a style that echoes the fluid way our thoughts spill out amidst the intrusions of children, the soft, ever-reflecting tone of our internal conversations, THE KITCHEN CONGREGATION is told in tales from the kitchen--the place where after years of broken traditions and new opportunities, mothers still relate to their children, women reflect among friends, and the family is nourished.« less