Heartburn
By Nora Ephron
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Heartburn (1983) is a comic novel by Nora Ephron narrated by Rachel Samstat, a cookbook writer in Washington. Seven months pregnant with her second child, Rachel discovers that her husband, Mark, a columnist, is having an affair. She returns to New York, where her father lives, and works through the collapse of her marriage with jokes, memories and the recipes she shares along the way.