A review by casey_zi
La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior

1.0

The beginning was a lot move eventful and well thought-out than the rest of the book, which was mostly tales of Rosa, the heroine, and her foreign lover's sexual adventures. The novel is sprinkled with descriptions of lavish Sicilian recipes, which Rosa gives names to in her language and then doesn't explain in English. She had a sad life: After losing her father and her first love when she was young, she falls into a depression and starts arguing with her mother. She leaves home to live twenty-five years alone in a city, working in a library. Nearing the end of her time there she meets a foreign man with whom she suddenly feels like having sex with. After her lover goes missing, she goes home again. Then another birth, another death. I was expecting some kind of conflict or climax but it never came. I suspect Rosa also died at the end but it's so vague I can't be certain.