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From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them

    Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having…

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A multigenerational sprawling Midwest masterpiece, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club is one of those rare books that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes even on the same page, sometimes even in the same sentence.

It explores family dynamics, grief (in all its applications), love (romantic, familial, convenient, complicated), estrangement, and supper clubs in all their old-fashioned antlered glory. With Stradal’s trademark warmth and imitable prose, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club is ripe with heartbreaking and at times, humorous reminders that life rarely goes as planned, and that’s exactly the point: you carry on in spite…

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