Rose Penski and her lover Adelle are two women you have to meet.

Rose has had many occupations. As for Adelle, she works long hours, scribbles on a lot of papers, and phones places such as Nairobi or Pittsburgh.

In the eight years Rose and Adelle have lived together, their relationship has evolved with all the accommodations and nuances of any long-time committed couple, along with quite a few quirks decidedly their own. But now there is a new equation in the mix: the doctors have found a suspicious mass in Adelle's breast.

Rose copes with her increasing fear by doing all the things she does best, and the one thing she does best is cook. In fact this woman may be the best cook between here and the nearest four star Michelin restaurant. Rose Penski is so good a cook that you'll gain ten pounds just reading her menus.

Rose Penski and her adored, maddening Adelle are two of the most endearing women ever to grace a novel about women who love each other.

Rose Penski is a novel so warm, so funny, so human, so moving, so tender, so loving and scary, that you'll only regret reaching its final page.