Litfuse Blog Tour Event: Stones for Bread by Christa Parrish

Stones for Bread will make you feel like you just took a bite out of a warm delicious piece of bread. It will fill you up and consume you with it's unique and charming story of a young woman whose passion for bread takes her farther than she ever imagined--or wanted. 

Goodreads Summary
What do you do when the gift you thought was bread turns out to be stones?Liesl McNamara’s Wild Rise is not only a popular bakehouse and café in Vermont, it’s an extension of herself. Liesl is an artisan bread maker, like her mother and grandmother before her. Even though she lost her mother to suicide when she was eleven, she keeps this maternal bond alive as she bakes. Liesl prides herself on living an uncomplicated, unattached life. But that changes when Seamus walks through the door of Wild Rise, lugging the large bags of whole wheat flour from the local food co-op. 

He and his daughter Cecelia have recently moved to the country seeking simplicity. Despite her best effort, Liesl becomes attracted to this teddy bear of a man who laughs easily and eats strange sandwich concoctions—on her bread, much to her dismay.
 
Her simple life is further complicated when a popular cooking show features her bakery. The publicity increases her business and brings several offers from larger businesses, all of which she turns down. But it also brings a completely unexpected phone call, one from a woman claiming to be her half-sister.
 
Liesl’s sense of identity dissolves as everything about her relationship with her mother—and the bread that held them together—comes into question. Has she been given stones rather than bread? And how can she ever take these crumbs and make them whole again?

My Thoughts

This book was a lot of firsts for me as a reader. To be honest I was so busy with school with transferring, work, and personal things that I was not in the reading mood. This is why this review is late! But one day I just decided to just try and read it, and I am so happy that I did. This book slowed everything down around me and from there I was captivated by this magnificent and truly endearing story that had captured my heart.

I don't usually highlight when I read a book especially when it's fiction. This book though had too many great passages that I could not not highlight or underline. 

There is so much strength and raw honesty from Liesl. She is a woman who has this connection to bread that is inspirational. She goes through a lot of uncomfortable situations in this book. First learning she'll be on t.v. for a bake-off show, than to being famous, to finding out she was adopted and so on and so on. Oh, and she is falling in love with an adorable and kind man and his daughter and trying to find out how that can work. It's all so common and yet not-- all of the things that she are placed in her path. All she wanted was peace and to go on her normal path. 

I can relate to that even now more than before reading this. 

From Liesl's POV, to her flashbacks as a child dealing with self harm, to her delicious bread recipes scattered throughout the book and also a look into bread through a biblical POV this book was overloading with genius and allure. You just want more because you never want it to stop. I loved every bite of this book. 

Liesl's story will take you through the hardest struggle of her life which is her identity. For everyone who has ever doubted their purpose and connection to someone or something will empathize and relate to this. 

The author tells us by the end of the book the meaning of the book. I just adore when authors do this! Don't you? 

Rating: 5 out 5 bookshelves 

Disclaimer: I received a free copy for an honest review from Litfuse Publicity Group.

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