![]() ![]() Since Delaina Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Paul Andre Michels, Elsias R. By intricately weaving motifs of food, identity, movement, and mental illness into scenes from her childhood, and through deeply researched sections on mental illness, the immigrant experience, and mid-twentieth-century Korea, Cho illustrates the complex and often tragic picture of immigrant life in America.Ĭho’s book could not have come at a more appropriate time: in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings committed earlier this year. Third is the mother of Cho’s adulthood, a mother who found a way back home through food, a mother who was cared for and loved and encouraged to tell her story.Ĭho’s memoir, Tastes Like War, follows the life cycle of each of these mothers. Second is the mentally deteriorating mother of Cho’s adolescence, a mother trapped by internal voices and fears, a mother withdrawn from society. First is the pre-schizophrenia mother of Cho’s childhood, a new immigrant to Chehalis, Washington from war-torn Korea, a force of nature who is social and glamorous and fearless. ![]() In her lifetime, writer and academic Grace M. “For all of my mothers, each of whom fed me in her own way, and for everyone whose voices have gone unheard.” – Grace M. ![]()
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