Cara\u2019s world is full of scrap-booking and good cooking, a pesky younger sister, and her strong and friendly father. When her mother and sister are killed in a fast-moving house fire, Cara seems to have lost \u2013 everything. Even her father is no longer with her in anything more than body. Cara feels like she\u2019s losing her mind \u2013 where was God? How can the Rabbi calmly talk about her mother and her sister when they’re gone? How can Bubbe and Zayde \u2013 her mother\u2019s parents \u2013 manage to carry on?<\/p>\n
Cara\u2019s grieving is depicted in all of its forms \u2013 feeling ashamed for being able to laugh, feeling guilty for having ever been annoyed with her sister, feeling sorry for herself, and unable to pick herself out of a rut of depression to care about anyone else. Out of the ashes of Cara\u2019s grief, she revives her mother\u2019s baking company. With the discipline learned in Julia\u2019s Kitchen<\/a>, Cara learns to live again \u2013 and drags her father back to life, too.<\/p>\n The title made me a sucker for this book — anything to do with ‘Julia’ and ‘kitchens’ is right up my alley! It was fairly intense for a middle grade book, but it tells the truth about true grief and depression and loss, and what it takes to go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cara\u2019s world is full of scrap-booking and good cooking, a pesky younger sister, and her strong and friendly father. When her mother and sister…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,14,21,5],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls-fiction","tag-middle-grade","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}