Trail of Crumbs
Subtitle: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Grand Central Pub.
Published: January 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780446579766
Subjects: Biography: general; International And Ethnic Cookery; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; History; Personal Memoirs; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; Cookery, International; Women cooks
Description: At a South Korean marketplace, three-year-old Kim Sunee's mother deposits her on a bench with a fistful of food and a promise to return. Three days later, a policeman takes the little girl and what is now a fistful of crumbs to a police station, where she learns that her mother isn't coming back. From here, her extraordinary life journey begins. Adopted by a young New Orleans couple, Kim spends her youth as one of only two Asian children in her entire school and church. At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman, and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses and stepmother to his eight-year-old daughter. But despite this glamorous lifestyle, Kim feels like an outsider, and it is in food and cooking that she finds solace and a sense of place.