Deer hunting in Paris
Subtitle: a memoir of god, guns, and game meat
By: Paula Young Lee
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Solas House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781609520809
Subjects: Korean American women; Children of clergy; Hunting; Anecdotes
Description: What happens when a Korean-American preacher's kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan world. Sneezing madly from hay fever, Lee recovers her roots in rural Maine by running after a headless chicken, learning how to sight in a rifle, shooting skeet, and butchering animals. Along the way, she figures out how to keep her boyfriend's conservative Republican family from "mistaking" her for a deer and shooting her at the clothesline.