1. Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and
the Search for Home by Kim Sunée
Wonderful For Foodies, For Travel Bugs, For The Empathetic Reader
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 Sunée 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.

2. When Kim Sunée was three years old, her mother took her to a
marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised
shed 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 shed been abandoned by her mother.
Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kims 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.
Features:
* ISBN13: 9780446697903
* Condition: NEW
* Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
* Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
Personal Review: Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the
Search for Home by Kim Sunée
First, the obvious: if you are a foodie or a traveler, you will love this book.
Sunee's rich descriptions of fresh, seasonal ingredients and the places
they came from made me pause during the book to try some of the
recipes. Every recipe I prepared was one I would want to make again:
Whispery Eggs with Crabmeat, Almond Saffron Cake, Penne with Popped
Tomatoes, Couscous Orange Salad, Wild Peaches Poached in Lillet
Blanc, Spaghetti with Pancetta and Cream, and the Blueberry Soup which
I used in Kir Royales. Tasting these dishes gave me an instant connection
to the part of the book in which they appeared, as though I was able to join
the scene. Each recipe at the end of a chapter was a reward to be happily
anticipated.
Sunee gives a dual meaning to the phrase "comfort food." Some of the
dishes fall under the rubric of classic comfort food, but all of them were
cooked and served to comfort Sunee and those who dined. Sunee
reminded me that kitchen memories are vitally important to the fabric of a
family.
For the general reader, there is much to recommend this book. Both
Sunee and Elizabeth Gilbert (in Eat, Pray, Love) have tapped into an

3. apparent zeitgeist of today's younger women: "he'll never realize that the
everything he wants to give me will never take away the nothing that I've
always had." This sentence haunted me.
Gilbert gives us a quick snapshot of the cushy life she walked away from,
but Sunee gives us the details we need to understand that it takes guts to
reject an easy, privileged life. Shallow women would have stayed for the
money, let's be honest. Many women of my (older)generation did just that -
at the cost of many valuable years of their lives. After the kids left for
college, we gasped and realized we were invested in unfulfilling
relationships. It's so much smarter of this younger generation to seek a
meaningful life from the get-go. Somehow Sunee knew what it took years
for others of us to learn: that things will not make you happy.
This book also has much to say about families and adoption. I empathize
with Sunee and her struggle to belong.
Haven't we all felt like failures when our families fall short of the Ozzie and
Harriet model? I did have a sense that Sunee held back some of the
sensitive details regarding her relationship with her mother, but I respect
that. In this age of tell-all bios, it was nice to have a little bit left to the
imagination.
This book does not deliver a neat ending tied up with a bow - nor should it.
Sunee leaves us with a tangible longing for resolution which is a natural
lead-in to a second book. Life isn't like tv - neat solutions in an hour.
Her yearning became mine - the mark of a skillful author with poetic
tendencies.
I hated to see Trail of Crumbs end. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and
have given it as a gift many times. Great read, which left me with a lot to
reflect upon, and delicious recipes to boot!!
For More 5 Star Customer Reviews and Lowest Price:
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunée 5 Star Customer
Reviews and Lowest Price!