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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home | 
| Author: Kim Sunee
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 87481
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0446579769
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780446579766
ASIN: 0446579769
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
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Product Description
Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search for identity through love, hunger, and food.
Jim Harrison says, "TRAIL OF CRUMBS reminds me of what heavily costumed and concealed waifs we all are. Kim Sunee tells us so much about the French that I never learned in 25 trips to Paris, but mostly about the terrors and pleasure of that infinite octopus, love. A fine book."
When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.
Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable. Adopted by a young New Orleans couple, she spends her youth as one of only two Asian children in her entire community. At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter.
Kim takes readers on a lyrical journey from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, along the way serving forth her favorite recipes. A love story at heart, this memoir is about the search for identity and a book that will appeal to anyone who is passionate about love, food, travel, and the ultimate search for self. (2008)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Trail of Self Pity December 21, 2008
L. Schilling (Louisville,KY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I enjoyed the descriptions of Paris and local environs, I found the author to be totally devoid of a sense of humor or the awareness that she was living a life most people only dream about. She seemed to have a sense of entitlement throughout the book and her constant simpering and whining made for an irritating read. Sunee needs to grow up and stop taking herself so seriously. The book could have been so much better, but the author couldn't get out of her own way.
Captivating, Despite Naive Writing Style December 19, 2008
on-the-go
I became engrossed with this story but was at times frustrated by the writing style; the book seems to have been written by a 20-year-old. Or maybe Sunee took on French as her main tongue, forgetting about sentence structure in English...
Beginner November 26, 2008
Joie M. Rawley (Greenville, SC, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although I think the author has something to say, she fails to keep the reader's interest. I have not been able to connect with the characters and what she is trying to portray. Appears to be a self contant person who needs to let go of the past.
Disappointing October 22, 2008
E. Melendez (Columbia, SC)
This memoir is self indulgent and repetitive. You can't help wonder if the author used her connections to the famous Frenchmen in her story to get a book contract, otherwise I can't image why a publisher would agree to this story. Although I didn't care for her self-absorbed story, I was intrigued by the many interesting recipes she included throughout. Perhaps she should have written only a recipe book and left the memoir alone.
 Good Flavor to Start - wanes over time August 27, 2008
M. Martell (San Francisco, CA)
I enjoyed the presence of recipes and food in this book. After a while, it seems that the author loses her flavor for food and passion. I liked the tales of food, of flavors from Louisana and the freshness of tastes from the south of France.
However - the part of the book on Korea seems misguided. Flying in first class with your boyfriend doesnt seem to be a guaranteed way to find ones identity. Was she going for herself, or for him?
For those of us who spent our twenties in another country, there certainly is a longing to find out who you are - and this is compounded when living and working in a second language. Clearly the writer was thrown into a role much older than she anticipated as a stepmother and madame of a flowing, vivid household.
The book didnt have much about hunger, but certainly a lot on finding out who you are, especially when living overseas. I'd love more cooking and less drama in future prose.
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