Bright Day, Dark Runner: A Novel about love and food, lovelessness and hunger

A great big broth of a book--an unorthodox novel that is broad and deep, funny and serious--about a wandering cook who comes to Cape Cod to work at the Mariner, a resort hotel. He soon becomes implicated in the crimes of mirth perpetrated by his colorful associates--a blonde cashier, who becomes everybody's friend; the diningroom host,...