The Gourmet Club

by Michael A. Kahn

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Pub Date Apr 22 2025 | Archive Date Jun 14 2025

Literary Fiction

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Description

Four young lawyers meet in the fall of 1981 as new associates at Chicago’s prestigious Abbott & Windsor. They are ambitious twenty-somethings, each having graduated with honors from a top law school, each with big plans for the future, and each unaware that—to quote a Yiddish proverb—“Man plans, and God laughs.”

At the end of their first week, they gather with their spouses for a potluck dinner party. Enjoying the night, they decide to meet again every three or four months, naming themselves the Gourmet Club.

Over decades, the Gourmet Club serves as a backdrop for evenings that reveal the characters’ diverging paths and the ups and downs of their professional and personal lives. Pivotal moments unfold in a courtroom, a boardroom, a bedroom, a baseball game, a funeral, and beyond, illustrating how much has changed—both in the country and in the lives of the protagonists—since that first meeting in 1981.

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A Note From the Publisher

Michael Kahn is a trial lawyer by day and an award-winning author at night. His novels include Bad Trust and 10 others in the Rachel Gold mystery series, the novel The Sirena Quest (described as "a Baby Boomer version of 'The Big Chill' meets 'The Maltese Falcon'"), and other novels and short stories. Married to his high school sweetheart Margi, they are the parents of five and the grandparents of eleven. His proudest moment as a writer: when his children took one of his books to school for show-and-tell.

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Advance Praise

"Michael Kahn's The Gourmet Club is a touching, clear, and immensely relevant narrative with technical features that successfully enhance the flavor without making the reader uncomfortable or bored. Notably, it could stimulate the creation of new recipes and a revitalized yearning for new, enduring connections. It is a lovely work that is emotional, hilarious, and thoroughly engaging, and it will be most appealing to anybody who has ever found family in friends." - Feathered Quill Reviews

"Michael A. Kahn’s The Gourmet Club is intelligent, absorbing, joyous, skillful, and innovating—an exquisite book not to be missed." - Readers' Favorite

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