I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.


Handle with Care: A Novel (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2009) - ISBN: 9780743296410


I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was...

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was...

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was...

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was...