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GET LIT: Win a copy of Alicia Bessette's Simply from Scratch

POSTED: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 4:00 PM

Dutton, 313 pp., $25.95, Aug. 5

Today's the official release date of friend-of-City Paper Alicia Bessette's debut novel, Simply from Scratch — though we've already seen it popping up on local bookshelves. No matter: We're giving away two copies to celebrate this Collingswood author done good. Here's a bit about the book, from Alicia's website:

Rose-Ellen "Zell" Carmichael Roy wears her late husband Nick's camouflage apron even when she's not in the kitchen. She can't remember the last time she wore a bra, and she speaks to her dog in the voice of a pirate. That's her widow style. It's been over a year since Nick died tragically during a post-Katrina relief mission in New Orleans. Long enough, according to the grief pamphlets, to have begun moving on with her life. But Zell is still unable to enter her attic, which is full of Nick memories. She hasn't even turned on her oven because cooking was Nick's chore. That is, until she decides to enter celebrity chef Polly Pinch's first annual Desserts that Warm the Soul baking contest ...

To win a copy, answer the following trivia question:

What's the name of the dessert Zell enters in the baking contest? Can you name five ingredients?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win.

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