{"product_id":"comfort-food-for-breakups-the-memoir-of-a-hungry-girl","title":"Comfort Food for Breakups","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography\/Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eWinner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Autobiography\/Memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Lambda Literary Award, Women's Memoir\/Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire's\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year, 2007\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nTraversing decades and continents, \u003ci\u003eComfort Food for Breakups\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw. In these intimate vignettes, food--soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogies--nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past. Knishes recall a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II; chocolate evokes memories of queer girls and liasons in dim lesbian bars.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor the author, both at home in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia, and in her travels through North America and Europe, food becomes her salvation, and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, \u003ci\u003eComfort Food for Breakups\u003c\/i\u003e muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marusya Bociurkiw (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733302702373,"sku":"9781551522197","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_808e1483-7b51-45ee-9d63-c76b892a0d90.jpg?v=1679345965","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/comfort-food-for-breakups-the-memoir-of-a-hungry-girl","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}