Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home is a memoir by Kim Sunée about adoption, displacement, food and the long search for a place that feels like home. Abandoned in a Korean marketplace at the age of three and later raised by adoptive parents in New Orleans, Sunée grows up with a deep sense of absence beneath the comforts of family, language and food. As a young woman, she is drawn into the world of a French businessman and finds herself living between Paris and Provence, hosting meals, caring for a child and trying to understand whether love, travel and the kitchen can fill the gaps left by her earliest loss. The memoir moves through Korea, the American South and France, using recipes, meals and sensory memory not as decoration but as a way to explore identity, belonging, desire and the hunger to be known beyond the roles others assign.
Author: Kim Sunée
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Year of publication: 2009
Number of pages: 400
Original language: English
