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Comfort food for breakups:, the memoir of a hungry girl, Marusya Bociurkiw

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Comfort food for breakups:, the memoir of a hungry girl, Marusya Bociurkiw

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Comfort food for breakups:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marusya Bociurkiw

Sub title

the memoir of a hungry girl

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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