Barbara, a successful designer and cookbook author, vows to keep her family and her thirty-year marriage intact. When her Hispanic professor husband dumps her for a younger woman, she plots an over-my-dead-body warpath against the interloper—a thirtyish Halle-Berry-look-alike.

Praise for

“The Great Book

of Pears”

“Beautiful and

deeply researched

little volume.”

–Raymond Sokolov,

Wall Street Journal

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BOOKS BY BARBARA FLORES

Dee Dee Alvarez and the Super Slammin’ Genius Plan that BACKFIRED (TBA)

Separated, Acting Badly. (Russian Hill Press.)

The Great Book of Pears (Ten Speed, 2000 IACP Cookbook Award nominee)

The Great Sunflower Book (Ten Speed)

Confusion is a State of Grace (Hazelden)

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POSTER DESIGN

Barbara Flores is the graphic-designer of an iconic food and garden poster series  for Celestial Arts/Ten Sped Press.

The Sunflower Poster by Barbara Flores

Chile Poster by Mark Miller. Design: Barbara Flores