A mother and daughter at odds for years try and patch things up before it’s too late only to uncover secrets between them that could destroy all that is left.

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Vene returns home to her dying mother in a final effort to ease their strained relationship. It’s as hard as she thought it would be. But there is something there that surprises her: the discovery of a secret past hidden in the pages of her mother’s cookbook that reveals a side to her mother she never knew.

 

Told in alternating perspectives a half-century

apart within the same house in Napa,
California, One Friday in Napa is a story of family, motherhood, love, and the truths that affect everything.