Frankie doesn’t quite know what to make of Paige and her eight-year-old son Bobby, who’ve just moved from Brooklyn to the quiet Upstate New York town where she’s lived her whole life. Paige, seeking refuge from a rocky relationship, is equally thrown: Does this eternally single, charming, gay vegetable farmer think she’s a citiot? And could the attraction she’s feeling toward her grow into something more?

Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Now & Again, Feed the Resistance, Small Victories, and Simply Julia and has coauthored numerous other cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning In Bibi’s Kitchen. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast Keep Calm and Cook On and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Saveur, and more. She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food, and is a member of God’s Love We Deliver’s Culinary Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse, Grace, and their many pets.