The Year of Soup

Howard Reiss recently published his 6th novel, The Texture of Love. Howard’s second novel, The Year of Soup, was inspired by a dinner at a small restaurant in Northampton, Mass. when an old professorial looking gentlemen with a bottle of wine in a paper bag sat down at a table in the corner and was immediately joined by the young, female proprietor and chef. This novel received the Silver Medal for Best Fiction in the North-East Region at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2013.

Howard’s novels have won numerous awards and have received glowing reviews from many organizations, including Midwest Book Review, Book Bub, Indie Reader and Readers’ Favorite. The Midwest Book Review calls Howard Reiss “an especially gifted storyteller with a knack for creating fully developed characters and original storylines that engage the readers complete attention from first page to last.”

Howard Reiss is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School. He co-founded a soup kitchen in Nyack, New York where he lives and runs.