Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

A tale of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rural Minnesota, and the history of love and tragedy, of suffering and hope, that both binds and separates them, comes from New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal.

Mariel Prager needs a vacation. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for many years, but Florence never warmed up to it, even though Mariel's grandmother welcomed the company and saw it as a lifesaver. Mother and daughter had a gap that never fully repaired when Mariel took over the restaurant, ignoring Florence.

Ned is also the heir to his family's series of home-style meals. Despite his lack of commercial acumen, he recognizes that his family's chain may have a brighter future than his wife's failing eatery. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. Will the Lakeside Supper Club be the saving grace for a broken family whose hopes have been destroyed, and will they manage to mend in spite of their losses?

J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his trademark honest, lovable, yet fallible Midwestern characters as they struggle with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone. All set in this vibrant, disappearing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds.