text:  So that's one very personal aspect of my mom's life and my experience and my perception of it that I put in the book. But also her joy. At the end of the day, she was a voluptuary. She loved restaurants. She would have been right at the bar next to Edina Sue drinking Brandy Alexander's and Seven and Seven's. And I wanted to write about that too. Since someone's life isn't just purely a tragedy or a comedy, I...