Whatever can’t
be worked out over doughnuts isn’t worth considering. Just ask the
four women who first met at the
Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School
of New York City in 1944.
Predating
“Sex in the City” by over a half century, the four women in Life,
Death, and Doughnuts begin a lifelong friendship based on
holding monthly dinner parties with their husbands. From their first
meeting in the midst of World War II, through the trials of the next
50 years, these women bond over careers, men, children, weight lost
and gained, and husbands lost and gained. But throughout it all,
over their distance, loss and “moving on,” the four find that
an occasional doughnut can truly
trump whatever else life drops in your path.
This funny,
touching and all too true novel will leave you wanting more.