Marrying the Ketchups: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them allfrom the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses Riveting...the feel of extremely good gossip told across a hightop table over a beer with an old friend." The New York Times Book Review Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivans, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over the course of three strange months, the Cubs win the World Series, Trump is elected president, and Bud drops dead, suddenly everyone in the family finds themselves doubting all they hold dear. Take Gretchen for example, lead singer for a 90s cover band who has been flirting with fame for a decade but is beginning to wonder if shes too old to be chasing a childish dream. Or Jane, Gretchens older sister, who is starting to suspect that her fitness-obsessed husband who hides the screen of his phone isnt always working late. And then theres Teddy, their steadfast, unfailingly good cousin, nursing heartbreak and confusion because the guy who dumped him keeps showing up for lunch at JP Sullivans where Teddy is the manager. How can any of them be expected to make the right decisions when the world feels sidewaysand the bartender at JP Sullivans makes such strong cocktails? Outrageously funny and wickedly astute, Marrying the Ketchups is a delicious confection by one of our most beloved authors.