Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Autobiography/Memoir
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Women's Memoir/Biography
Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award
One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2007
Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw. In these intimate vignettes, foodâ??soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogiesâ??nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past. Knishes recall a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II; chocolate evokes memories of queer girls and liasons in dim lesbian bars.
For the author, both at home in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia, and in her travels through North America and Europe, food becomes her salvation, and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 818/.5409
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1551522195 9781551523200
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.B558
- LCCN Item number
- Z46 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (171 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603358 (OCoLC)739381921 (CaOOCEL)408964
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Preface 14
- Mama's Kitchen and Beyond 20
- Radishes and Salt 26
- Fresh Coffee 31
- Sunday Soup 35
- Tomatoes 42
- Eggs 47
- Potatoes 53
- Food for the Soul 58
- Thanksgiving Dinner 62
- Vegetable Curry 67
- Lost and Found 73
- Torte 76
- Mushrooms 83
- Chicken 88
- Food Voyages 92
- Pranzo 97
- Meze 103
- Fish on Fridays 110
- Food for the Body 116
- Chocolate 120
- Grilled Salmon 126
- Pie 130
- Carrot Cake 136
- Oranges 141
- Recipe for Trouble 146
- Comfort Food for Breakups 150
- Varennyky 156
- Apples 164
