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Cheat Day
Cheat Day: A Novel | Liv Stratman
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A smart and funny debut novel about the unexpected consequences of one womans attempt to exert control over her entire life by adhering to a strict wellness regimen. Liv Stratman writes with such clarity, intelligence, and zip the Brooklyn debut novel is reborn in Cheat Day. Lorrie Moore Kit and David were college sweethearts. Now married and twelve years older, they live in Kits childhood home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. While David has a successful career, jetting off on work trips to exotic destinations, Kit is stuck in a loop. She keeps quitting her job managing her sisters bakery to seek a more ambitious profession, but fear of failure always brings her right back to Sweet Cheeks. Kit finds a fraught solace in cycling through fad diets, which David, in his efforts to be supportive, follows along with her. Their latest program is the Radiant Regimen, an intense seventy-five-day cleanse, and Kit is optimistic about embarking on a new chapter of clean eating and self-control. But hungry in more ways than one, she soon falls into a flirtation with a carpenter named Matt who is building new shelves for the bakery kitchen. Unable to resist their mutual attraction, Kit and Matt fall into a passionate affair. Kit suppresses the guilt of her betrayal by adhering more and more strictly to the Radiant Regimen, pushing the diet, and her infidelity, to greater extremes. Told in precise, intimate detail, Cheat Day is a sharply comic novel that explores family, loyalty, monogamy versus monotony, deprivation versus indulgence, and the limitations of modern wellness.
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paisleyjess
Cheat Day: A Novel | Liv Stratman
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Stratman does an amazing job of realistically showing the conflicting mind of a character obsessed with dieting and struggling with her marriage. Everything rings true and relatable. Don't expect a bodice ripping rom com; this goes into deeper issues

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OriginalCyn620
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At times, I did not like the MC very much, but I think she‘s relatable. Kit has many issues, a main one being her relationship with food. She‘s just started a new “program” (not a diet!) but she works at her family‘s bakery. She refuses to cheat on her program, but finds another way to satisfy her hunger - by cheating on her husband.

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#pop22 - book with cutlery on the cover or in the title

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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Megabooks
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Darkly funny novel about a woman who will cheat on her husband but not her diet. 🤨

Kit works at a bakery owned by her sister and cousin. She has just started a strict diet with her husband, but when a carpenter does some custom work for the bakery, she finds a release for her pent up feelings that doesn‘t involve food. The characters made believable choices, and I always like that. More contemporary fiction than romance fwiw. ⬇️

Megabooks ⬆️ this is the second book in my #AlgorithmExperiment where I bought books I‘d never heard of that Amazon recommended. The bots did better this time! (edited) 2y
rachelm I liked this one a lot 2y
Megabooks @rachelm 👏🏻👏🏻😁 2y
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Cinfhen Yay for the bots 🤖 🤖 🤖 2y
Cathythoughts Sounds interesting 👍🏻😁 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen huzzah! 🤖🤖 2y
Megabooks @Cathythoughts it was! Definitely a nice fun break from serious books. 2y
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rachelm
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I don‘t think I ever posted my review for this? I loved it. Messy lit fic about a woman with disordered eating habits who works at her family‘s bakery, and how she‘s trying not to cheat on her husband (but not trying very hard).

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Lauren.Archer
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Stratman writes a very intimate portrait of a woman who is dealing with so much internal angst. At times I hated Kit, but I decided to stick with this story and am so happy I did. What the author provided felt so real throughout. You will not love every moment of the book, but in the end I do believe Kit will stay with you for a very long time.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds good! 3y
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