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East Meets
South in Dixieland Sushi
Cara became a bestselling author with her debut novel,
I Do (But I Don’t)—now a Lifetime movie—and
kept the momentum going with Pink Slip Party, another
Downtown Press success. Now Cara is back and better than
ever with DIXIELAND SUSHI, (Downtown Press; May 2005)
a delightfully offbeat tale about big fat weddings, the
burdens of love, and the clash of cultures.
Jen Nakamura Taylor has always felt a little different.
With her dark, exotic and hard-to-place looks she always
stood out in the small Southern town where she grew up.
Her whole life she's walked a thin line in the culture
clash of her Japanese-American mother's family and her
father's often quirky, and decidedly off beat white Southern
family. Now, living hundreds of miles away from Dixieland
in Chicago, she's juggling an often-demeaning job as a
producer at a popular television show and fighting an
attraction for a very-taken British colleague.
But the delicate balance of things in her life are upset
when she gets word that her beauty-queen cousin is getting
married to her first love and wants Jen to come home to
Dixieland for the wedding - a grand affair that is threatening
to put Scarlett O'Hara to shame.
All too aware of the circus she’s about to walk
into, Jen prepares for the worst. Instead, when she returns
home, she learns how to make peace with her family, her
past and herself.
DIXIELAND SUSHI is an irresistible read from an author
who gets better with every book.
About the
author
CARA LOCKWOOD is the USA Today bestselling author of
I Do (But I Don’t), which was made into a movie
for Lifetime Television, and Pink Slip Party. She was
born in Dallas, Texas and raised with her brother in a
biracial family (her father is a third-generation Japanese-American
and her mother is a second-generation Texan of English
and Irish descent).
DIXIELAND SUSHI, while fiction, was inspired by her childhood
in Texas, where she grew up eating sushi and listening
to country music, and was sorely disappointed to discover
that her Japanese DNA did not give her the ability to
learn karate without even trying. She is now married and
living in Chicago and working on her fourth novel.
