Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

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March 17: Trump said in a news conference that for the next 14 days, “we’re asking everyone to work at home, if possible, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people.” Phyllis] Grant is really good. Her book is more than special and unlike any memoir I’ve ever read—an epic, pulsing poem/diaristic memoir about restaurant work, cooking, motherhood, and more. Skip Netflix one night and read Grant’s spare, dark vignettes. Then read her again." -- Hunter Lewis, editor-in-chief, Food & Wine

I loved reading about her life in New York City. It was there that she met her future husband. Phyllis discusses her marriage, children, career moves, and life in general. It was a sort of easy, breezy, ironic and overall fun book. It was consumed very fast and was satisfying, like I'm sure a lot of her scrumptious recipes are at the end of the book!The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance.

I pull him into my lap and cradle his impossibly long body, carefully covering his eyes with my hands. I feel his heart racing in his eyelids. The vignettes in this lean collection are powerful, presented with plenty of white space between chapters, a pause to savor what is told and what is left unsaid . . . Brimming with passion, tragedy and love, this slim volume delights, enlightens and satisfies." -- Beth Dooley, San Francisco Chronicle A chef and food writer debuts with a lean memoir that revisits seminal moments from her past through tightly composed vignettes. Surveillance may well be needed to cope with covid-19. Rules with sunset clauses and scrutiny built in can help stop it at that. But the main defence against the overmighty state, in tech and the economy, will be citizens themselves. They must remember that a pandemic government is not fit for everyday life. ■ Another aspect of the book was their friendship and their screwed up relationship that got more complicated when the story unravels. I loved their rough, sister-like bound, and their slow reconciliation.

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The power is in the vignettes Grant writes about love and parenting, growing up and settling down, baby food and wedding cake and Vicodin—all of which ring dead-true even though you don't know Grant yourself. You'll steamroll through it. And then you'll start cooking." -- Sarah Rense, Esquire

The pacing was fine at about 7 hours. I've listened to very long books before, but this was the perfect length for this type of novel. I am so glad that I've been able to review this as my first audiobook review. Emily Adrian is a talented writer and I would read another book from her. This book is perfect for a book club or for fans of contemporary, prescient literary fiction. Fantastic narration by Madeleine Lambert as well! As I invert it onto a cake plate, I splash hot caramel all over my hands, the table, the floor, my son’s shoes. This book is an encyclopedia, and if you don't like reading encyclopedias you won't like it. In the Age of Wikipedia, EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL can seem a bit quaint. It's also a bit dated; 20 years old now, Wilson's book spends a bit too much time talking about conspiracy theories which were very much on our collective minds in the 90s, but which don't make a whole lot of press or sense now. The most obvious example of this is repressed memory therapy, which Wilson clearly finds not just laughable but outright dangerous, traumatizing as it does individuals and their families. There are multiple entries in various facets of this practice, as well as AIDS conspiracies that are not even remotely plausible today, when we have made so much amazing progress (at least in the US) treating the disease.

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The same day, Trump tweets out blame to the media and the Democrats for trying to “inflame” the situation “far beyond what the facts would warrant.” No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” In a Fox News interview, Trump deflects criticism to his response by saying the Obama administration (including the vice president, Joe Biden) “didn’t do anything about” swine flu. We rated the claim False. Nevertheless, Adrian has a concise, poignant writing style. There are so many highlight-worthy lines in this book that I felt compelled to write a rare review even if it isn’t raving. Feb. 4: Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, Japan. Over 2,600 guests and over 1,000 crew. Within two days, over 40 people test positive for COVID-19, including eight Americans.

Everything Is Under Control is a beautiful paradox—the book moves expansively, generously across the decades, in prose as clean and economical as a chef's knife dicing an onion. The result is addictively readable and ultimately wise, true, and real.” — Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. … we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it.” And yet the superfluous addition of the political affiliation of Deerling, Ohio’s inhabitants suggest that voting any way but Democrat is a bridge too far. Adrian employs the tired trope that a Trump voter is the same as a white supremacist who deserves to be in jail, a confederate flag is the same as a MAGA flag. The tragedy is not only that she ostracizes half her readers, but also that it added absolutely nothing to the novel. It served zero purpose. It’s hard to buy-in to Adrian’s main characters’ enduring friendship forged despite their circumstances when Amanda, Carrie, and Gabe detest those around them who vote ostensibly because of their small-town, small-minded ways.In the span of three months, Americans went from hearing about a new virus in central China to being told they ought to stay home and avoid groups larger than 10. President Donald Trump went from telling people not to worry and everything was under control to leading daily press conferences on containing the outbreak in the United States. Trump continues to blame the Obama administration in an exchange with reporters at the White House.