![]() ![]() I personally never got the chance to interact much with the Jewish community. ![]() In the short pages of this thirteen chapter book, an intricate web of affairs and marriage breakdowns is woven making me think I had stumbled upon a melodrama. Our main protagonist and narrator, Rachel Samstat has a two year old son and is seven months pregnant with her second child when she discovers her husband’s affair with Thelma Rice, a character wholly underdeveloped beyond caricature-like descriptions. Heartburn was originally published in 1983 by Little Brown Book Group. ![]() It reflects the real life story of the author who also wrote the screenplay for the 1986 movie adaptation. Heartburn is the autobiographical yet fictitious story about a famous cookbook author whose husband has an affair with a mutual family friend. ![]()
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