Friendship Bread by Darien Gee is a total feel-good novel! The reader is presented to all these different characters and families that are struggling with something in their lives. Perhaps the most broken of all these characters is Julia Evarts, whom the story tends to revolve around. Julia has spent the past five years of her life living in a vacuum, only doing the bare minimum she needed to survive and take care of her daughter, Gracie.
One day, things start changing for Julia. She finds a loaf of Amish Friendship Bread on her doorstep, along with a bag of starter and instructions on how to make more. When little Gracie insists that they make the Friendship Bread, Julia's life starts taking a new course. She ends up meeting two newcomers, rare in the small town of Avalon, and sharing the starter with them. The three women create a powerful friendship, and little by little, Julia begins coming out of her waking coma.
The Friendship Bread strikes Avalon like a plague and soon enough everyone has a bag of starter and millions of recipes for it. When disaster strikes a nearby town, the bread unites Avalon, forging new friendships and rehabilitating old, broken ones, as the town unites to help a neighbor in need.
It's the ultimate girly, feel-good novel! Everyone gets their happily ever after in a relatively realistic way, and you leave the novel with a good taste in your mouth. Not to mention all the recipes for the Amish Friendship Bread at the end of the book!
I definitely recommend it! It'll give you a good cry, and leave you fuzzy happy at the end!
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