Marrying into a candy conglomerate family that is struggling with differences over the company's eventual succession, Alice investigates the family's rags-to-riches story from a slave ancestor's efforts to flee the cacao plantations in Cote d'Ivoire to a Hungarian immigrant's inspiration from a stolen library book.
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"Ms. Weber has studded her narrative with tasty facts about the history of the candy business in America."
--Amy Virshup, "New York Times
""TRUE CONFECTIONS" "is her most delectable novel yet, a book that interweaves a history of candy, chocolate in particular, with a sweeping story of America's immigrants, race relations and religion from before World War II to the present day..."True Confections "has plenty to digest. The last line is delicious.
"--"Diana Wagman, " Los Angeles Times
""With her fifth novel, TRUE CONFECTIONS, Katharine Weber has concocted a sly and playful book..."True Confections "is a hoot, but a hoot with an edge.
--Karen Long, "Cleveland Plain Dealer
""[A] succulently inventive fifth novel...Weber skillfully weaves fact and fiction...A novel should give us "that unique blend of sweetness and pleasure and something else, a deep note of something rich and exotic and familiar" that a bite of good chocolate does. "True Confections "certainly delivers that delectability.
--Lisa Zeidner, "Washington Post Book World
""In Katharine Weber's tricky, treat-filled new novel, set in a fictitious candy factory in real New Haven, what you get is more than you might expect...it's delicious and written with wit and energy."
--"Hartford Courant"
"Weber unleashes a wacky comic sensibility....Filled with candy lore, impassioned critiques of chocolate, and Alice's one-of-a-kind takes on marriage and family, this is sweet reading for fans of the offbeat."
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"TRUE CONFECTIONS is as slyly ambitious as it is funny, tackling themes such as greed, intergenerational strife, betrayal, and the decline of the small manufacturer... It's a real treat."
--"Historical Novels Review"
"Brilliant . . . In an age characterized by artificial sweeteners and cheap fillers, Katharine Weber's book feels like a gift--a novel filled with characters so real they come off the page and into your life."
--Rich Cohen, author of Sweet and Low
"Delicious, stuffed with humor and brimming with greed and goodness. Weber adroitly evokes a real candy factory, with all its aromas and intrigue, providing the perfect setting for the Ziplinskys to chase their dreams. True Confections is good enough to eat! Better yet, savor one of the best novels of the year!"
--Susan Karl, president and CEO, Annabelle Candy Company
"Praise for TRIANGLE"
"A thing of beauty . . . a structurally dazzling novel whose formal acrobatics have a purpose beyond their own cleverness. That is, to make readers feel anew the tragedy of the Triangle fire."
--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"Katharine Weber's crackerjack historical mystery may be the most effective 9/11 novel yet written-- and it isn't even about 9/11."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Praise for THE LITTLE WOMEN"
"Stops being droll only to be funny and almost never stops being exceedingly smart."
--Richard Eder, New York Times
"Praise for THE MUSIC LESSON"
"Likely to haunt you when you're done with it . . . A wonderful book."
--Washington Post Book World
"Praise for OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"
"With vibrancy and a steady barrage of linguistic brio . . . Weber provides a blend of artistry and insight far beyond what we usually see in a first novel."
--San Francisco Chronicle
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KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels Triangle, The Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber, and is a thesis adviser in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.
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