Eight Hundred Grapes
Laura Dave
Simon & Schuster, Jun 2 2015, $24.95
ISBN: 9781476789255
Just before her marriage, thirty year old Georgia
Ford learns a secret that her fiancé concealed from her. Out of character as her brothers and parents
know she is perfect infantry charging forward to take the hill; instead Georgia,
in her wedding dress, drives nine hours from Southern California to her
family-owned The Last Straw Vineyard in Sebastopol.
However, her first stop in Sonoma County is the
Brothers’ Tavern owned by her siblings.
To her shock only her brother Finn is there; her dad and her other sib
Bobby are not. At the house, she is
greeted by a naked stranger coming out of her mom’s bedroom. As Georgia learns more stunning revelations
re family dynamics and happiness (or not), the grapes of wine (and wrath), and
in vino veritas relationships; she questions what she always thought were universal
bedrock truisms.
Georgia holds together a profound look at family
as the female lead begins to understand her acceptance of "facts" is
faulty due to her previously unaware of personal rosy-colored filter protecting
her mental state from the complexities of relationships. Readers will toast Lara Dave for this
insightful drama with California Chardonnay.
Harriet Klausner
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