num_pages: 368
description: A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food but for love and a sense of belonging Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life full of sorrows pleasures--and of course food--Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.
language: English
title: Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
publisher: Doubleday