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Food Was Her Country
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- Book Synopsis
- How can a god-fearing Catholic, immigrant mother and her godless, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? Food Was Her Country is the story of a mother, her queer daughter and their tempestuous culinary relationship. From accounts of 1970s macrobiotic potlucks to a dangerous mother-daughter road trip in search of lunch, this book is funny, dark and tender in turn. Bociurkiws Ukraine-born mother is a devotee of the Food Channel and a consummate cook. When she gets cancer of the larynx, she must learn how to eat and speak all over again. Her daughter learns how to feed her mother, but, more crucially, how to let her mother feed her. Food Was Her Country explores a daughters journey of grieving and reconciliation, uncovering the truth of her relationship with her mother only after her death. Marusya Bociurkiws Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl was a food writing phenomenon: the worlds first LGBTQ food memoir. With this long-awaited follow-up, Food Was Her Country draws upon a queer archive of art and activism, stories from her popular food blog, Recipes for Trouble, as well as social histories of food, evoking new beginnings and fresh ways of tasting the world.
- About The Author
- Marusya Bociurkiw received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia. She has published articles, essays, and reviews in academic, arts, and activist journals and books in Canada and the United States for the past twenty years. She is the author of four literary books, and her films and videos have screened at film festivals, art house cinemas, and universities around the world. She is currently an assistant professor of media theory and head of the Media Studies stream in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781987915648
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press, (14 September 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 216 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 140 x 13 mm
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