Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Contributor(s): Bociurkiw, Marusya (Author) |
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ISBN: 1551522195 ISBN-13: 9781551522197 Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. The author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, also reconciles her family life with her queer identity; food becomes her salvation and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, sensual, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses on the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for family, for home. Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker and the author of three previous books. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Essays & Narratives - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: 818.540 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.56" W x 8.03" (0.49 lbs) 176 pages |
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Publisher Description: An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. The author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, also reconciles her family life with her queer identity; food becomes her salvation and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, sensual, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses on the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for family, for home. Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker and the author of three previous books. |