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Tastes Like War

Audiobook
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve 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 for the roots of her mother's schizophrenia. In her mother's final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent's childhood in order to invite the past into the present and to hold space for her mother's multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive.

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Publisher: Dreamscape Media Edition: Unabridged
Awards:

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781666532982
  • File size: 271230 KB
  • Release date: August 3, 2021
  • Duration: 09:25:03

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781666532982
  • File size: 271267 KB
  • Release date: August 3, 2021
  • Duration: 09:30:59
  • Number of parts: 10

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve 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 for the roots of her mother's schizophrenia. In her mother's final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent's childhood in order to invite the past into the present and to hold space for her mother's multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Dreamscape Media
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781666532982
    File size: 271230 KB
    Release date: August 3, 2021
    Duration: 09:25:03

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781666532982
    File size: 271267 KB
    Release date: August 3, 2021
    Duration: 09:30:59
    Number of parts: 10

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English