Book Review: How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert

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How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert

Book Summary.

How to Share an Egg Bonny Reichert HOW TO SHARE AN EGG is a memoir that is a mix of a food biography and personal experiences. Bonny grew up in a loving home with food and fond family memories. Her father, a survivor of the holocaust who lives his life in response to his horrifying experiences and her mother who does the same but in different ways. Food was always at the center of her familial experiences. Around the table is where some of her favorite parts of childhood happened. She learned very early that love meant food and food meant home. Although she knew her parents always loved her she didn’t always feel that they allowed her to live her own life. She was often plagued by inherited guilt. And oftentimes felt that she could not want more for her life as she was surviving which was more than her father could’ve expected. It is a story of one life that I think a lot of us can find a home in. Sharing her perspective will help a lot of us own ours.

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The Review.

An important conversation had within the pages of HOW TO SHARE AN EGG is about trauma and the exchange that happens when our traumatic stories are shared. Learning there is a difference between what is secret and what is private. What is relieved when it is shared and what is transferred. In all cases light is cast into the darkness but oftentimes, someone is left in the shadows. It’s about love, family expectations about finding you own path. Growing up and growing into yourself. I am thankful for the opportunity to read it and it opened my eyes to my own associations with food and survival. It helped me to understand and really contemplate what food means to me. Thanks to Netgalley, Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine | Ballantine Books for the advanced copy! HOW TO SHARE AN EGG…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️