True Confections: A Novel Review

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True Confections: A Novel ReviewKatharine Weber unfurls a unique blend of sweetness and pleasure, rich and exotic, from the moment that her heroine Alice Tatnall steps into the Zip's Candy factory back in 1975. Thought of as the local Arson Girl, after setting fire to her friend Debbie Livingston's house, Alice's rancid and bitter piece of the past, becomes inexorably blended into the present. Even when the fire was an unpremeditated and freakish accident, Alice is desperate to escape her Arson Girl fate. Soon enough she's captivated by every aspect of this stirring, sugary world of Zip's Candies and the lively, exotic Ziplinksy family. inhaling the sugary, life-giving air with gratitude every morning and letting it "sweeten and soothe every corner of her scorched, empty self." But Alice is not only seduced all of the delicious Little Sammys, Tigermelts, and licorice Mumbo Jumbos with the burnt sugar and chocolate aroma, "that marvelous, ineffable ,just right aura of Zip's Candies." But she's also powerfully attracted to the dark and handsome and wisecracking Howard, the son of the Sam Ziplinsky, the company's owner.
Originally hired by Sam, Alice finds herself bucking the attentions of his wife, the condescending and irritable Frieda Ziplinsky, across the whirring, clanking, chugging, sugar-caked Zip's Candies factory floor. A lonely exile from her own sad family, Alice's journey is broad and intimate, as she retraces the flaky and non-standard Jewish marriage to Howard along with many family revelations. Her recollection of events plunges us into world where the label "Dat's Tasty!" cannot help but infer a simple, naive, underhanded racism. Alice also cannot avoid confrontation with Frieda, Sam's officious wife who can't keep her unbeautiful son away from this interloper into the family. Later on Alice must also contend with Howard's sister, Irine, her entire otiose connection to the business really only ever about her own status and prosperity where she has used her money over the years to fund a wide variety of "half-baked do-good, feel-good enterprises of the moment."
Weber blends Zip's Candies history into Alice's very real world, retooling the Ziplinsky family lore and the founder Eli Czaplinksy, a Hungarian Jew, and an orphan who arrived at sixteen with his older brother Morris at Ellis Island in 1920. Eli worked perpetually to keep in his dream of his beautiful sweet candies and the success and prosperity those candies bring moving forward while he left the third and youngest brother Julius left behind with cousins in Budapest. Julius, full of Czaplinsky motivation and determination, arrives in Madagascar, a Jewish exile from the war, and figuring the best claim to stake, uses his diamonds to build his own empire.
Central to this novel however, are Alice's thoughtful observations of the worldwide candy trade, with all of the Little Sammies, and Tigermelts and Mumbo Jumbos whizzing along the lines on their journey from raw ingredients to finished candies to wrapped products tightly packed into boxes for shipping. While parts of the novel get bogged down a bit by the ins and outs of the multi-national candy corporations, and their contractual history, True Confections is mostly a unique tale about human nature and how we resist genuine patterns and meanings. As Alice increasingly battles Howard's unwillingness, or constitutional inability to play the part of a grown up, we constantly are witness to particular form of arrogance that can afflict those who have had all their good fortune handed to them. All the while, the candy lines remain perpetually in motion, forever after, mixing and blending and forming and extruding a new ending flow of candy, the innovative vision of Eli Ziplinsky finally made real. Mike Leonard January 10.True Confections: A Novel Overview

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