Coyote Cowgirl by Kim Antieu

This book was recommended in the bibliography of Coyote Road, the new-ish Trickster anthology from Datlow and Windling. The extensive bibliographies, I've mentioned before, are one of my favorite things about those anthologies. (I wonder if they will create a fourth anthology, and if so, about what? Shapechangers, perhaps?)
Jeanne Les Flambeaux is a nobody. In a family of famous restaurateurs, she doesn't like food. She has no talents and no confidence. She has never fit in anywhere. But when her family's treasured ruby scepter disappears and she goes on a wild journey to get it back, everything is going to change.
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I have enjoyed Antieu's other works, such as Gaia Websters and a number of shorter pieces. This is another good one. It's fast-paced, funny, and evocative. I enjoyed the descriptions of food and landscape, the wacky family, and the way everything comes together at the end. Recommended for fans of trickster stories, offbeat food writing, and fantasy set in the Southwest. It also has an appendix of recipes! Three and a half stars.