Comfort Food for Breakups
The Memoir of a Hungry Girl
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Lesbian, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Marusya Bociurkiw | ISBN: | 9781551523200 |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press | Publication: | June 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Marusya Bociurkiw |
| ISBN: | 9781551523200 |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Publication: | June 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
