Hello Sunshine

 

Shirley J.         Adult Fiction          Reality cooking show, having it all, losing it all 

Hello Sunshine: A Novel by Laura Dave      272 pages   

This is the story of Sunshine Mackenzie who is "discovered" and given a reality cooking show, who's background is "created",  whose recipes are "supplied", whose cookbooks "manufactured" she seems to have it all until she doesn't.   One day someone hacks her and the information put out goes viral - a tell all of an illicit affair, the fact her background is not the midwestern farmgirl portrayed nor are the recipes hers though there have been several cookbooks published under her name.    So many possible hackers each with many reasons to want to bring her down it is hard to know who the real person with  the most reason to bring her down and out her is.   A good story with a moral of keep it real.    I recommend this story to middle schoolers on up.     A teaching tale to keep it real and not to let become something it shouldn't.