![]() And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her-but also the things that kept her alive. ![]() In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Cho documents the psychological toll of racism while exploring the redemptive power of food, which serves as her mothers language when other forms of. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details-language, cultural references, memories, and food. ![]() ![]() Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. A Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history, in order to understand her mother's schizophrenia. ![]()
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