Comfort Food For Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

Description

A beautifully written food memoir with a queer bent in which the author comes to terms with her Ukrainian heritage and her lesbian identity by way of their connections with food: as sustenance, coping mechanisms, reminders of familial history and objects of desire. The book's most compelling material includes the story of her father, who spent time in a concentration camp during WWII as a Ukrainian prisoner of war and later reinvented himself as a North American professor and family man who oversaw dinner parties and family meals with rigour and ritual.

Marusya is a writer and filmmaker, and currently teaches media and popular culture in Toronto, Canada. She has previously published three titles, this is her first nonfiction book.

"Comfort Food for Breakups" is hungry with life, leavened with longing, love and memory, then garnished with queer.... Feast on this deeply.?Heather Menzies, author of "No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life"--Heather Menzies "Comfort Food for Breakups" is a sumptuous collection of memories stunning and searing, complicated and comforting. The spectrum of broken hearts will find solace within these fierce pages. ?Shuna Fish Lydon, food blogger, "eggbeater.typepad.com"--Shuna Fish Lydon