Trail of Crumbs
Kim Sunee's memoir, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, appeared by chance on my lap. Kate found it at the Mars Hill Library and passed it on to me. It's the true story of a young (30-something) woman, born in Korea and abandoned at age three in a market, who is eventually adopted by a New Orleans couple and who, at the time of writing, has ended a domestic relationship with a wealthy Frenchman and is still searching for her true identity and her home. The book is as captivating as a novel because the author writes so well and has a tale to tell. Because Kim or "Keem" --(I call her that because she is so referred to by the people in her life AND because I can't manage the diacritical marks for her family name) loves to cook, the memoir is also suffused with recipes French, Asian, and New Orleanian.