Love Your Mother, Emily

Nearing her eightieth birthday, Emily shares her thoughts, memories and recipes with her daughter Sigrid. Emily struggles to understand a changing world and COVID adds more complications. Her emails will make you laugh and cry as she opens her life and heart to her dearest daughter. Emily's joy of cooking and useful cooking advice will likely influence your own table. Love Your Mother, Emily delivers an engaging portrait of a mother/daughter relationship. These heartfelt, personal letters will invite you into Emily's marriage, day-to-day life and childhood. A nostalgic visit to a grandparent's home, now in disrepair, the confusion of modern personal pronouns and new life partner patterns, the baffling restrictions of Covid, an amazing story of ancestral homesteaders and of course the grounded happenings of daily life all bring to Emily's mind recipes which she shares at the end of each email. This is Kathe Olafson's second story/cook book. Her first, Just Scratch the Surface, was well received. A constant comment was, "More recipes please." Love Your Mother, Emily is excellent without trying the recipes and a life enriching experience if you do. (26500 words)