She accepts this challenge, and even though the internship doesn’t go exactly as planned, she at least goes through it with grace. Zoe finds an opportunity to audition for another Food Network Kid’s Baking Competition, and her mother and stepfather said she could audition IF she successfully completes her summer internship at Ari’s Cakes. I would say this part of the story is mostly what it’s about, but it doesn’t focus solely on her letters with Marcus. She ends up starting a tentative relationship with Marcus (her father) through letters, written on special stationery paper that says “From the Desk of Zoe Washington” – hence where the title comes from – and she learns more about him and his case.
This is odd to her because she has never received a letter from him before, and even though his letter says that he has sent others, there’s no record of that. She had an amazing birthday party being at Ari’s Cakes, being surrounded by actual industrial kitchen stuff and realizing her dreams in that way, when she ends up getting a birthday letter from her incarcerated father. I would have loved to see Zoe compete on the show in real life, but that’s a conversation for later.
Zoe dreams of being a successful baker with her own business, inspired by seeing Ruby Willow winning the Food Network Kid’s Baking Championship. I was wrong of course, and this story ended up being so much more complex and intricate than that. I say that because when I first saw this cover without reading what it was about, that’s exactly what I thought it would be about. Which is funny, because Zoe is not a writer or dreams to become a writer, so it would be a surprise if that’s what you thought going into it. If you go into this book based on the cover alone, you wouldn’t even think that there was so much more involved in this novel outside of Zoe doing something with writing.
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