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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

by Kim Sunee

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Already hailed as brave, emotional, and gorgeously written by Frances Mayes and like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search for identity through love, hunger, and food.

Jim Harrison says, TRAIL OF CRUMBS reminds me of what heavily costumed and concealed waifs we all are. Kim Sunee tells us so much about the French that I never learned in 25 trips to Paris, but mostly about the terrors and pleasure of that infinite octopus, love. A fine book.

When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.

Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable. Adopted by a young New Orleans couple, she spends her youth as one of only two Asian children in her entire community. At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter.

Kim takes readers on a lyrical journey from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, along the way serving forth her favorite recipes. A love story at heart, this memoir is about the search for identity and a book that will appeal to anyone who is passionate about love, food, travel, and the ultimate search for self.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780446697903
Subtitle:
Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
Author:
Sunee, Kim
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Cookery, International
Subject:
Women cooks
Publication Date:
January 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
376
Dimensions:
824x548x108 79

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