Delicious by Ruth Reichl

Delicious! is a wonderful story that weaves together two stories throughout and ties them together at the end. First, there is Billie - the Ugly Duckling living in her sister's shadow. She breaks away by quitting school to move to New York and work for a magazine - Delicious!. She slowly learns about herself as we learn about her past. At the end of book one, there is a momentous event. The results start book two and lead to the introduction of Lulu through letters. I COULD NOT put this book down. It is a captivating enigma and it ends with a wonderful gift - but you will have to read it to learn what that gift is and who it is for.