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Liv Stratman

Biography

Liv Stratman

Liv Stratman earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her writing has appeared in the Boston ReviewWitness and the Cincinnati Review. She worked for many years in a bakery and as a bookseller, and CHEAT DAY is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn.

Liv Stratman

Books by Liv Stratman

by Liv Stratman - Fiction, Humor, Women's Fiction

Kit is stuck in a loop. She keeps quitting her job managing her sister’s bakery to seek a more ambitious profession, but fear of failure always brings her back to Sweet Cheeks. She finds a fraught solace in cycling through fad diets, which her husband David, in his efforts to be supportive, follows along with her. Their latest program is the Radiant Regimen, an intense cleanse, and Kit is optimistic about embarking on a new chapter of healthy eating and self-control. 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 soon begin a passionate affair. Kit suppresses her guilt by obsessing over her diet, pushing herself to greater extremes.