Meet the Author: The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts by Erin O'Brien

Shopping at a discount grocery store can be performance art and a half-acre lot can yield a field of dreams. For those of you who believe that the Rust Belt is the perfect place for a whirlwind romance, this is a food memoir in which a dozen ears of sweet corn turn a humble bowl of chowder into a divine creation, the Hamburger Helper glove dukes it out with a scrappy bowl of slumgullion, and banishing the blues is as easy as lunch with Holly Golightly at the local farmers' market. A misfit Irish-but-not-Catholic girl from Cleveland's west side, O'Brien is funny and sophisticated, projecting triumph through domesticity without blinking when sorrow fills the screen. The right measure of earthy sex makes this book too hot for the Erma Bombeck set, but we think you’ll like it just fine. Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.