Tastes Like War av Grace M. Cho

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<p><strong>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION</strong></p><p><strong>This evocative memoir of food and family history is </strong><b>"somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (<i>Shelf Awareness</i>).</b></p><p>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.</p><br><p>Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, <em>Tastes Like War</em> 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 pa