Jesse Q. Sutanto with Jenny L. Howe

Join us for a special evening with Jessie Q. Sutanto, award-winning, USA Today bestselling author!

Join us for a special evening with Jessie Q. Sutanto, award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of the Aunties and Vera Wong series, to celebrate the release of her newest book, Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block! Jesse will be in conversation with romance author Jenny L. Howe.

Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block centers around a nearly divorced trophy wife who enrolls in culinary school to win back her husband, only to find a fresh start in the unlikeliest of places! Readers will love this new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.

Tickets for this event are bundled with a copy of Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block, which Jesse will sign during the event. Tickets for this event are coming soon!

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About the book:

Retirement should mean long-awaited trips to the sapphire waters of Santorini or careening down a sand dune in Dubai. For sixty-three-year-old Mebel, retirement means her husband of more than forty years announcing that he's leaving her for their private chef. Mebel isn’t sure who's the bigger loss.

Not to worry, Mebel has the perfect plan: she’s going to win back her husband. No one knows what he needs better than her—after all, she's been anticipating his needs their whole marriage. And if he wants a wife who can cook (why else would he leave her for a chef?), she will simply go to cooking school. And where better to learn to cook for your husband than France, the most romantic country in the world?

However, Mebel quickly learns that she has mistakenly enrolled in a culinary school not in glamorous Paris but rather in England—and in some small village outside of Oxford no less. Despite the less-than-warm welcome from her much younger classmates, Mebel manages to befriend Gemma, the breakout star of the program. And this unlikely friendship starts to show Mebel that maybe there’s more to her than being the perfect trophy wife…

About the author:

Jesse Q. Sutanto is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of the Aunties and Vera Wong series along with several stand-alone thrillers. She grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a master’s degree from Oxford University and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley. Jesse currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two young daughters.

Jenny L. Howe is a literature professor, amateur dog wrangler, and owner of too many Lego sets. Getting lost in love stories is her favorite form of escapism, and she still can’t believe that she gets to write her own and share them with the world. She is the author of romances for teens and adults, including her YA debut Love at Full Tilt.