Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic,
subversive, and darkly humorous book Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and
kitchen manager of Chappy's, a small chain restaurant, is frantically
trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her
PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the
polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she
inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and
might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate
owners, Stevie battles corporate's "restructuring" to save her kitchen,
while trying to learn to forgive herself and maybe allow some love back
into her life. Stevie's biting, hilarious take on her own and others'
foibles will make you cheer and will have you loving Misconduct of the
Heart (in the immortal words of Stevie's best line cook) "like never
tomorrow."