Search: A Novel by Michelle Huneven. Penguin Press, 2022. Adult fiction.Dana is a fictional food critic and member of the Arroyo Unitarian Universalist Community Church in Altadena, California. When Tom Fox plans to retire as their preacher, a search committee is formed for the nine-month process of finding a replacement. Dana is one of eight diverse people on the committee.
In the course of the novel, readers will get to know these people, their congregation, their beloved and former minister Sparlo Plessant, and others who will influence the committee's choices. By the end, we know the leader and are updated three years later about the other main characters.
Humorous and witty, this novel will be interesting even to those readers not of this denomination. Happenings seem realistic and the timeline aspect moves along briskly as time passes and the committee works and argues and eats. Since food is such an integral part of the story, recipes are helpfully provided at the end. Dana even writes a novel called "Seach: A Memoir with Recipes" by Dana Potowski which may make finding the real book difficult in library catalogs!
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