I had my beloved, bat-eared dog, Dingo, but a dog just doesn't cut it in the blue hour. From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.
And I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life-other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. On some especially blue evenings, I almost, but never actually, wished I had a roommate.
I wanted to go out and eat in a restaurant just to be around other people. Suddenly I missed Jon, missed being married. I had moved to a big, airy railroad apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. After my husband, Jon, and I split up, I started thinking of the blue hour as a hump I had to get over, a period of restless bleakness during which I yearned for company. Arrives by Fri, Apr 21 Buy Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780307951106) by Kate Christensen at. THERE'S A CERTAIN time of day, after sunset, when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Illustration by Vidhya Nagarajan for The Wall Street Journal Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her. ILLUSTRATION: Copyright © 2013 by Kate Christensen, by permission of Doubleday. A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life.
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