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Copy Link : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/1952177944 Book Synopsis : Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness).Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life.Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brillia
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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness).Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life.Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brillia
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Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American
Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and
family history is "somhow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal
history"(Shelf Awareness).Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white
American merhant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abrad. They were one of few
immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday
details—laguage, cultural references, memories, and food. Whe Grace was fifteen, her
dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for
the rest of her life.Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tases Like War isa hybrid
text about a daughter’ssearch through intimate and global history for the roots of her
mother’sschizophrenia. In her mother’sfinal years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her
parent’schildhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her
mother’smultiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals,
Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised
her—bu also the things that kept her alive.“Anexquisite commemoration and a potent
reclamation.”—Boklist (starred review)“Awrenching, powerful account of the longterm
effects of the immigrant experience.”—Kikus Reviews
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