Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Shauna Niequist writes a collection of short personal essays about finding meaning in ordinary things: dinners with friends, cooking, a move to a new city, a season of restlessness, and the small disappointments of her twenties and thirties. Each piece pairs a scene from daily life with a reflection from her Christian faith, and she writes in a warm, confiding tone with recipes and stories drawn from her own kitchen and friendships.

Readers who like faith-inflected memoir, particularly women in their twenties and thirties who are weighing ambition against contentment, will find it companionable. It is a book for those who want gentle encouragement to notice the life they already have rather than a program for changing it.

Practical, inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?