The Heartbreak Bakery

The Heartbreak Bakery

Hardback
4.110

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Description

A Lambda Literary Award Winner

Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical--and makes everyone who eats them break up.

"What's done is done."
Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.

Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd's breakup brownies . . . breaks up. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Being dumped is one thing; causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin, it's probably on the messenger bag), believes Syd about the magic baking. And Harley believes Syd's magical baking can fix things, too--one recipe at a time.

Book Information

Main Genre
Young Adult Books
Sub Genre
Non-Fiction
Format
Hardback
Pages
352
Price
18.00 €

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Ich habe mit Backen nicht so viel am Hut, aber Syd hat mir wirkich Lust darauf gemacht, mich auch mal wieder daran zu versuchen. Die Prämisse mit den magischen Gebäckstücken, die die Gefühle der Person, die sie gebacken hat, an die Menschen weitergibt, die sie essen, ist echt cool und hat hier perfekt reingepasst. Die kleine, aber feine Romance zwischen Syd und Harley war einfach chef's kiss. Außerdem liebe ich die Art, wie Harleys Demisexualität thematisiert wurde. Allgemein spielen Sexualitäten und Geschlechtsidentitäten eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Buch und sind wirklich gut umgesetzt worden. Allgemein gibt es ganz viel queer joy und ich liebs.

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Steph called this a a super gay magical realism breakup novel, and that's the perfect way to describe this. Syd is phenomenal and the detail in the recipes and the baking aspect is chef's kiss. I loved this.

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