The Recipe for Homecoming

“Ten years later, his signature dish still tastes like goodbye.”

In a harbor tavern on the Galician coast, Roi Fontán cooks in his grandfather's cast-iron pan and hides the bank's letters. One rainy afternoon, old Antón Rivas slaps a magazine on the counter bearing Lidia Salgado's byline: she's back in town, supposedly to write about the Sisargas shipwrecks for a Madrid paper, and she asks for table six. A single review from her could save the tavern or turn it into something else, and Antón knows why she really came.