Dinner for One
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Publisher Description
From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen
When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own “happily-ever-after.” But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her.
Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris—all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means.
Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn’t look quite how you expected.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In her touching memoir, New Yorker Sutanya Dacres learns that cooking for yourself can be deeply therapeutic. Dacres believed she would live happily ever after when she married a Frenchman and moved to Paris. But when she was blindsided by divorce, she had to figure out how to make the most of her new home city—and craft a menu for her new life as a single person. Part love story, part foodie memoir, part survivor’s tale, this audiobook (based in part on Dacres’ hit podcast of the same name) follows her emotional journey from fairy-tale romance to bitter heartbreak. Narrator Imani Jade Powers makes you feel the whole range of her emotions. Dacres’ culinary adventures are a sensory experience in and of themselves. Dinner for One reminds us that being good to yourself is always a good rule of thumb.
