num_pages: 176
description: An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. The author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, also reconciles her family life with her queer identity; food becomes her salvation and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, sensual, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses on the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of for intimacy, for family, for home. Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker and the author of three previous books.
language: English
title: Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl
titlecomplete: Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl
genres: Canada, Queer, Nonfiction, Food, Memoir
ratings_count: 56
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Memoir/Biography
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press