“The work of being a mom feels like prison to me. “I wasn’t cut out to be a mother,” she writes in the note she leaves behind. Eva’s mother abandoned her as an infant, after deciding she wasn’t ready to be a parent. Set in Midwest kitchens in and around the Twin Cities-a region that Stradal, a native of Hastings, Minnesota, knows well- Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a masterfully woven set of stories that all connect, in some way, to the lovely and slightly mysterious Eva Thorvald. Then I go out with friends around 7:00 for fish and chips.” If someone said, Tell me your perfect day, I would say, I wake up with an idea in my head and I write it. No one might care,” he says from his home in Los Angeles. “You spend a lot of time alone in a room thinking, I don’t know who’s going to read this. Ryan Stradal spent months working on his vibrant first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, without ever knowing if anything would come of it.
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