Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551522197)

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.

Author: Marusya Bociurkiw
ISBN-10: 1551522195
ISBN-13: 9781551522197
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.56w x 0.44d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: IndieFab awards - Winner
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 05/01/2007 pg. 41
Foreword 07/01/2007 pg. 79
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2007 pg. 30