Rye bread is a beloved foodstuff with a rich history. To Michaele Weissman, author of The Rye Bread Marriage, it’s so much more.

“What do you do if you’re a writer, married to a guy who was born in Latvia, is obsessed with Latvian rye bread and stays obsessed through [all] decades of your lives,” Weissman says.

One day, she woke up and told her husband, “My next book is going to be called The Rye Bread Marriage.”