Savor

She built an empire. She just couldn't taste any of it.

At thirty-four, Sabrina Pham has everything her mother taught her to want: a company built out of nothing, a name that opens doors, a life optimized down to the minute. Then a deal falls through, and Sabrina decides she has to leave.

She flies to Greece, to a man who has been the door she never walked through, and who never comes. On an island far too beautiful for a woman who cannot feel anything, she finally breaks. Then a stranger serves her a warm meal, and for the first time in eleven years, she tastes something.

What follows is the year Sabrina stops running. In Paris she learns to sit still and eat slowly. In New York she begins again, and helps her grandmother paint back to life. And she meets a man with a camera who waits for the end of her sentence before he speaks.

Savor is a novel about the women of one Vietnamese-American family who each abandoned the thing they loved, and about what happens when a woman finally stops long enough to taste her own life, and then hands it around.

For readers of Lessons in Chemistry, Crying in H Mart, and The Joy Luck Club. Includes a reading group guide and recipes from Sabrina's table.