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Title details for Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee - Available

Trail of Crumbs

Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home A Memoir

by Kim Sunee
Justine Eyre
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Kim Sunée was three years old when her mother took her to a crowded marketplace and left her on a bench with only a fistful of food. Three terrifying days and nights later a policeman discovered Kim, who was clutching what was now only a handful of crumbs.
Nearly twenty years later, Kim’s life is unrecognizable. Adopted by a family in New Orleans, she grows up as one of only two Asian children in her community. At the age of twenty-two, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman, and finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight-year-old daughter.
But despite this glamorous lifestyle, Kim never really feels at home. TRAIL OF CRUMBS follows Kim as she cooks her way into many makeshift homes and discovers that familiar flavors are the antidote to a lifetime of wandering. Ultimately, it is in food and cooking that Kim finds solace and a sense of place.  Sensuous, intense, and intimate, this powerful memoir will appeal to anyone who is passionate about love, food, travel, or the ultimate search for self.

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  • Release date

    January 8, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415949351
      • File size: 365757 KB
      • Duration: 12:41:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kim Sunée was abandoned as a child in a Korean marketplace. She was adopted, raised in New Orleans, and when she grew up, she ended up traveling the world. Justine Eyre tells her story with the piquant tone and energetic pace of a young woman who is discovering herself. The wonder expressed in Eyre's voice makes her journey from Asia to the United States and then to Europe believable and touching. For listeners who enjoy cooking, the memoir includes a variety of recipes, which help enliven aspects of the author's culture. At times, the tone of the author comes across as whiny. Nonetheless, Eyre creates a complete personality as she recounts a woman's extraordinary journey. M.R. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 17, 2007
      On making Sunée's acquaintance in the introduction to this charming memoir, it's hard not to envy the young woman swimming laps in the pool overlooking the orchard of her petit ami
      's vast compound in the High Alps of Provence, but below the surface of this portrait is a turbulent quest for identity. Abandoned at age three in a Korean marketplace, Sunée is adopted by an American couple who raise her in New Orleans. In the 1990s she settles, after a fashion, in France with Olivier Baussan, a multimillionaire of epicurean tastes and—at least in her depiction—controlling disposition. She struggles to create a home for herself in the kitchen, cooking gargantuan meals for their large circle of friends, until her restive nature and Baussan's impatience with her literary ambitions compel her to move on. The gutsy Cajun and ethereal French recipes that serve as chapter codas are matched by engaging storytelling. Alas, for all Sunée's preoccupation with the geography of home, her insights on the topic are disappointingly slight, and the facile wrapup offered in the form of resolution seems a shortcut in a book that traverses so much rocky terrain.

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