FINALIST: Lambda Literary Awards, Women's Memoir/Biography - 2007 SILVER MEDAL WINNER: Independent Publisher Book Awards, Autobiography/Memoir - 2008 WINNER: ForeWord Book of the Year Award, Autobiography/Memoir - 2007
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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
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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.
Product Detail:
Author: Bociurkiw, Marusya Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, 6/1/2007 Content Language: English Book, Paperback: 171 pages Weight: 0.49 lbs. Dimensions: L: 8.03 in. x W: 5.56 in. x H: 0.44 in. Comes with Illustrations
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