Tastes Like War
A Memoir
New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First Feminist Press edition.
Description: 289 pages ; 21 cm
"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue 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 to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Cho, Grace M.
Cho, Grace M. -- Family.
Korean American women -- Biography.
Children of the mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Food habits -- Korea (South)
Cooking, Korean.
Korea (South) -- Social life and customs.
Cho, Grace M.
Cho, Grace M. -- Family.
Korean American women -- Biography.
Children of the mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Food habits -- Korea (South)
Cooking, Korean.
Korea (South) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781952177941
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Cho, Grace M. | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Cho, Grace M. | Wheatley (Shandon) | Display, Biography | In |
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Includes bibliographical references.
National Book Award finalist, 2021
National Book Award finalist, 2021