Tastes like war a memoir
"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 me...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Feminist Press edition. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 289 pages ; 21 cm |
| Awards: | National Book Award finalist, 2021 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781952177941 1952177944 |
| Author Notes: | Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War , a 2021 National Book Awards finalist, and Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War , which received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in journals such as the New Inquiry , Poem Memoir Story , Contexts , Gastronomica , Feminist Studies , WSQ , and Qualitative Inquiry . She is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. |
