Novelist Meredith Mileti will be appearing at the Barnes & Noble at the Westside Pavilion for a meet and greet. She will be signing "Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses." Described as Ruth Reichl meets Nora Ephron, Aftertaste is a funny, sexy and appealing debut. Meredith is an accomplished, self-taught chef and a writer, and both loves come together in this poignant and appealing book that falls into the chick/mom lit category. Mira Rinaldi lives life at a rolling boil. Co-owner of Grappa, a chic New York City trattoria, she has an enviable apartment, a brand-new baby, and a frenzied schedule befitting her success. Everything changes the night she catches her husband, Jake, "wielding his whisk" with Grappa's new waitress. Mira's fiery response earns her a court-ordered stint in anger management and the beginning of legal and personal predicaments as she battles to save her restaurant and pick up the pieces of her life. Mira falls back on family and friends in Pittsburgh as she struggles to find a recipe for happiness. But the heat is really on when some surprising developments in New York present her with a high stakes opportunity to win back what she thought she had lost forever. For Mira, cooking isn't just about delicious flavors and textures, but about the pleasure found in filling others' needs. And the time has come to decide where her own fulfilment lies - even if the answers are unexpected. Meredith developed recipes for the book that are germane to the story and the characters' development. Available now from Kensington.