Praise for Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Stradal serves up another saga of food and family, hurt and healing, pitched between cliff-hanger moments. . . that make the pages fly."
--People
"This is a perfect book."
--Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Not That Bad
"Stradal...displays his gift for writing female characters who are fully realized, sometimes unlikable, but always as flawed and compelling as real people. The Midwest setting is written with love and respect, and while the story is often heartbreakingly sad, there's also real warmth and comfort in Stradal's writing. A loving ode to supper clubs, the Midwest, and the people there who try their best to make life worth living."
--Kirkus (starred)
"Stradal's novels...always resonate...He explores universal themes: love, loss, regrets for one's past mistakes, and longings for what might have been--plus, of course, the importance of family."
--Publishers Weekly
"In his previous two novels. . . J. Ryan Stradal writes fetchingly of three lovely things: inventive food, craft beer and Minnesota. [ Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club] possesses these same ingredients with added dashes of grief, estrangement, resignation and love. In other words, it's everything on the menu."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune