Heartburn

Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read (80 books items)

"Moby Dick it ain't, but don't go through life without reading Heartburn. To the list of great narrators we have to add Rachel Samstat, Ephron's wisecracking cookbook author, who is seven months pregnant when her husband informs her that he's in love with another woman. Lemons become lemon soufflé. The whole book is funny, but the scene where Rachel's therapy group gets held up by a mugger is one of the most pants-peeingly hilarious in American literature."