Cooking for Picasso A Novel

The novel weaves together two storylines: The French Riviera, spring 1936, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks in her family's Café Paradis. She begins delivering meals to a mysterious, incognito patron who is, in fact, Pablo Picasso. Their encounter affects Ondine's life for many decades. The second storyline is New York, present day, where Hollywood makeup artist Céline learns from her mother, Julie, that her grandmother, Ondine, once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by family secrets, Céline travels to the Côte d'Azur, the town where Ondine and Picasso met. While there, attending a rigorous cooking class, she discovers truths about art, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future.

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