'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club' is J. Ryan Stradal's love letter to his mother
Host Robin Young speaks with author J. Ryan Stradal about his new novel “Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club.” The book centers around three generations of women connected to a family-owned supper club in upper Minnesota.
The cover of “Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club.” (Courtesy)
Book excerpt: ‘Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club’
By J. Ryan Stradal
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Mariel, 1996
Mariel Prager believed in heaven, because she’d been there once, so far. She’d like to report that it looks an awful lot like Minnesota. The next best place to heaven, in her experience, was a type of restaurant found in the upper Midwest called a supper club. When she walked into a good one, she felt both welcome and somewhere out of time. The decor would be
