Coming up, a Melancholy Ghost Story for Foodies.

A Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the history we inherit.

Plus our distraction of the week. I'm Mel.

I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.

Just a quick programming note. This will be the last episode of the Library of Lost Time for a little while.

We realized that doing two podcasts at the same time was maybe a little ambitious for this year.

So we're hitting pause on the Library of Lost Time for the summer.

But we're not going anywhere.

The next episode of Strong Sense of Place will drop next Friday.

We're getting curious about Portugal, and we're

excited to get back to the deep dives into places and the stories they tell. And don't worry,

we will bring the Library of Lost Time back in the fall. And until then, thanks for listening

and making room in your week for a little bookish joy. Mel, tell us about your book this week. What I'm about to say is pretty obvious to anyone who's listened to our show, but I'm going to say it anyway. Okay. I love to eat. Yeah, same. Eating is just such a pleasure. I like to talk about food. Yep. I like to read about food. Sure. I like to read a cookbook front to back. Yeah. But even more than that, I love a novel that includes food. I like to read about food. Sure. I like to read a cookbook front to back. Yeah.

But even more than that, I love a novel that includes food like it's a character. Books like

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. That one is set in Jamaica. Or butter honey pig bread by Francesca

Eccowasi. That one's about sisters in Nigeria.

Cinnamon and gunpowder by Eli Brown. That's the story of a wildly creative chef

kidnapped by a lady pirate. And because I'd like to say, gentlemen in Moscow as often as I

possibly can, there's some really fantastic food in that book as well.

There is.

One of my best reading experiences of 2024 was Piglet by Lottie Hazel.

That's a dark comedy about a woman whose life falls apart after a betrayal, and there's

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