
By Kim Sunée
ISBN-10: 0446511080
ISBN-13: 9780446511087
Book Details:
ASIN: B0010SKST4
Publisher: Grand imperative Publishing
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
Number of Pages: 401
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books
Synopsis:
Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" through Frances Mayes and "like a bit of darkish chocolate--bittersweet, gratifying, and complete all too soon" via Laura Fraser, writer of An Italian Affair, it is a certain memoir concerning the look for id via love, starvation, and food.
Jim Harrison says, "TRAIL OF CRUMBS jogs my memory of what seriously costumed and hid waifs all of us are. Kim Sunée tells us quite a bit concerning the French that I by no means realized in 25 journeys to Paris, yet commonly concerning the terrors and enjoyment of that limitless octopus, love. a good book."
When Kim Sunée was once 3 years outdated, her mom took her to a industry, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of nutrition, and promised she'd be correct again. 3 days later a policeman took the little woman, clutching what was once now just a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and instructed her that she'd been deserted by means of her mother.
Fast-forward nearly two decades and Kim's lifestyles is unrecognizable. followed by means of a tender New Orleans couple, she spends her adolescence as one in every of in simple terms Asian little ones in her whole neighborhood. on the age of 21, she turns into concerned with a recognized French businessman and all at once unearths herself dwelling in France, mistress over his homes in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his 8 year-old daughter.
Kim takes readers on a lyrical trip from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, alongside the best way serving forth her favourite recipes. A love tale at middle, this memoir is ready the quest for id and a ebook that might attract an individual who's keen about love, nutrients, commute, and the final word look for self.