Recipe for a Perfect Wife book review

So if you're a regular person like me, you might need a recipe to become a perfect wife. Just, you know, become better. It'll help. Keep reading to find out what book we are talking about today. 

Hey y'all, it's Kyla Denanyoh, and I'm talking all about perfection, perfect spouses, perfect love, ideal, all the stuff. Today, we're discussing the book "A Recipe for a Perfect Wife." The author of the book is Karma Brown. The book's genre is fiction. The theme of the book is literature. 

So, I love the cover. You've got the 1940s and 1950s housewife. But you look a little bit closer, okay, is that a knife in her hand? Is it for something like smearing cream cheese? And then you have a little skull and crossbones. Wait a minute, what?

Child, listen. This book was reminiscent of Julie and Julia because it is a contemporary story of a marriage, and it is a, um, past marriage that you're following. Alice and her husband, Nate, move into the house and find Nellie's cookbook. Nellie and her husband are the source of all the drama. Nellie wants to be perfect. They're living in the 40s and 50s, and she's always hosting. She has all these great recipes; they make everything from scratch. Canned goods are a thing, but you're just not buying them in the store, all of it. 

Nellie is trying her hardest to be perfect. She looks fantastic, she's smoking cigarettes with a cigarette holder so her fingers aren't getting stained, she's trying to give him a child. Richard does not care. But to see that juxtaposed with Alice's relationship with Nate, it's clear that Nate wants a baby yesterday. Give me this kid. I bought you the house. Where is the kid? Meanwhile, Alice is not having a baby. 

When Nate finds out why they're not having a baby, when Nate finds out how much buying this house and moving to the suburbs has changed their relationship, it's a bigger deal to go from an apartment to a home than you think. For one, your responsibility balloons. Not only do you have a mortgage, but something in our house breaks every month, and you have more space. 

Even my husband and I went from a 900-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment with a one-year-old to a 2,000-square-foot house with a three-year-old, and now she just has more space to run, put crayons on the walls, and do all the things. And so the responsibility level is just different. 

Alice has a garden. She wants to be in the garden. She has neighbors. And Alice and Nate's relationship undergoes significant changes. We don't get to see Alice in her relationship with her parents. Still, Alice does have a good friend, Bronwyn, and that relationship is important because Bronwyn has her own relationships. However, it is Alice who starts to learn from Nellie. She reads the cookbook, tries the recipes, starts changing her look, and meets the neighbors who still remember Nellie. So, Alice evolves into a different person within her marriage, and this change alters things.

So my favorite thing about the book? The ending. Child. Listen, Nate and Alice are not still married. There is no way. There is no way. There are multiple references to the time in this book. They got married in 2018. The pandemic's gonna come there. There's no way they're still married. Zero chance. Karma, please call me; I'll help you write the next installment of this book. There's no way they're still married; absolutely zero. None, just saying. 

You can have that for free.

So, I would reread the book, A Recipe for a Perfect Wife. Oh, yes. For one, this whole swan mix —I'm like, ' Oh, I can't wait. ' Oh my God, give me the recipe. Sike. Just playing, right? I thought this was your family putting lemon pepper on steaks, cause it makes it good. Nevermind. The book is phenomenal. There are actual, real recipes in here. I'm going to try the one for the cheddar popovers. Like phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. Yes, I would reread it. 

Until the next book review, Kyla