![]() ![]() Rachel's self-esteem takes a huge battering as Mark meets another woman Thelma Rice (based on Margaret Jay) and she takes her revenge by telling the Washington grapevine that Thelma has a venereal disease. ![]() Threaded through the whole are recipes and anecdotes which drive the story along and humanize Samstat. The book wittily describes the life of an upper middle class intellectual couple replete with neuroses-Rachel is in group therapy, Mark agonizes over the mystifying disappearance of his socks. They have one son, Sam, and Rachel is pregnant with their second child as the book begins. Rachel is a Jewish New Yorker who has moved to Washington, D.C., to support her husband's career. The narrator of 'Heartburn' is Rachel Samstat (based on Nora Ephron), a food writer who is married to Mark Feldman (based on Carl Bernstein), a political journalist. ![]() Based on Nora Ephron's marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, her second husband, the book has been translated into Persian under the title of ‘The Private Life of a Chef’ by Mahsa Malek Marzban and released by Koraseh Publishing in 162 pages. ![]()
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