Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal,a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesotaand the legacy of love and tragedyof hardship and hopethat unites and divides them Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisisher spunkybeloved restaurant is bleeding money by the dayand her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where sheΓÇÖs been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decadesand while MarielΓÇÖs grandmother embraced the businessseeing it as a saving graceFlorence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurantskipping Florenceit created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed. Ned is also an heirΓÇöto a chain of home-style dinersΓÇöand while he doesn’t have a head for businesshe knows his family’s chain could provide a better future than his wife’s fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedyNed and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dearand the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashedcan one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their lossesand will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation? In this colorfulvanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old FashionedsJ. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honestlovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with lovelossand marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.