BATH — On Tuesday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m., Portland author Kate Christensen will be at Patten Free Library in Bath to talk about and sign copies of her bestselling book Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites. Bath Book Shop will handle sales of the paperback edition, which was released on May 6. In addition, the library’s book group will discuss the title when it meets on Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m.

A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, “Blue Plate Special” is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist

Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures—and, of course, food—Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.

Christensen is the author of six previous novels. She lives in Portland.