Tastes Like War: A Memoir

Written by Grace M. Cho

Narrated by Cindy Kay

Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, this hybrid text is a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Aug 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666532982

Grace M. Cho

Grace M. Cho is the author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, which received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in journals such as The New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, Feminist Studies, Qualitative Inquiry, and WSQ. She is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Reviews for Tastes Like War

[Owen Goldin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So moving and well written. I am going to tell all my friends to read or listen to this book.

[Tracy Ho · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Although I had heard a lot about the Korean war and have been interested in the geopolitical aspects of the war, I had never really considered how it affected individual lives. This book made me realise how wars for the sake of the consolidation of power really destroys lives and triggers intergenerational trauma .

[loisdbrown · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This genre of “confessional” memoirs are becoming so similar. I listen because it seems so impossible all those things happen to one person/family. And then, when I step away from the book and be more objective, I conclude they probably didn’t. Difficult to sort truth from fiction in this book and the genre as a whole. Memories are “squishy” at best. I’m going to stick to vetted biographies for a while.