Food Was Her Country
The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
Marusya Bociurkiw
Bociurkiw’s Ukraine-born mother is a devotee of the Food Channel and a consummate cook. When she gets cancer of the larynx, she must learn how to eat and speak all over again. Her daughter learns how to feed her mother, but, more crucially, how to let her mother feed her. Food Was Her Country explores a daughter’s journey of grieving and reconciliation, uncovering the truth of her relationship with her mother only after her death.
Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl was a food writing phenomenon: the world’s first LGBTQ food memoir. With this long-awaited follow-up, Food Was Her Country draws upon a queer archive of art and activism, stories from her popular food blog, Recipes for Trouble, as well as social histories of food, evoking new beginnings and fresh ways of tasting the world.
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ISBN | 978-1-987915-64-8 |
Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
Publication Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Caitlin Press Inc. |
Format | Paperback |
Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Language | English |
Rating | Good |
BookID | 4149 |