Baked In Seattle

This hilarious, poignant novel of 1990's Seattle follows a bisexual half-Jewish FedEx driver, the Scandinavian mother of twins, an "Oakland black" restaurant manager, a kiki Mexican pal of a famous rapper and an old-money pixie in glittery fur Santa-drag. Colliding over spontaneous Christmas dinner, they wrestle a hate crime, spawn an international media frenzy, shock the two-stepping gay bar and invade the Ban Roll-On Building's secret dome. Their parallel lives find bittersweet balance with surprise love, AA meetings, late-life parenthood and terminal illness in "Baked In Seattle."