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The Kitchen Man

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Women who read this book are very grateful for a male character they can actually like. As a feminist, I think this is extremely important.

Gabe is real - smart, funny, not a male model, beset by worries and a MENCH. He tries to do the right thing for the right reasons.

Relationships take work and this novel shows people who work constructively.

Looking forward to another novel. Are you listening "Woody?"

We follow Gabe's dilemma - being a waiter, wanting to be a writer, but becoming a lover to a woman, who should be his employee. Personal matters are splitting him up to the crucial point, when he decides, what's the most important thing in his life. Wood has written a story of life, which often happens in reality, he only added some glamour to it and a happy ending (which is not so common in real life). I like it.

This is my all time favorite book!!!!!!!! You MUST READ IT!!!!! funny, sad, reflective....wonderfully developed characters.....great descriptions of Boston and Cape Cod...you fall in love with Gabe and root for him throughout all of his trials and tribulations.....I have read it every summer over the last 10 years and just recommended it to my book club.....I so wish Ira Wood would write another book of the same calibre......Very happy to see Kitchen Man is back in print and available for purchase......