{"product_id":"9781984881090","title":"Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club","description":"\u003cb\u003e“This is a perfect book.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eRoxane Gay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNot That Bad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMariel Prager needs a break. Her husband, Ned, is having an identity crisis; her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day; and her mother, Florence, is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in Mariel’s family for decades, but it also caused a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Ned is also an heir—to a chain of home-style diners—and he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear. Can they find a way to rebuild their lives, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    In this vanishing world of relish trays and brandy old-fashioneds, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal has given us a story full of his signature winning, honest yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love and tragedy, hardship and hope—and what their legacy will be when they are gone.","brand":"J. Ryan Stradal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47723272110180,"sku":"9781984881090","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/0502\/0516\/files\/BNCImageAPI_612fda6e-6dba-41eb-91bb-17a2ad1fd48a.jpg?v=1768592598","url":"https:\/\/larkspurbooks.ca\/products\/9781984881090","provider":"Larkspur Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}