Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

Natalie Eve Garrett

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Catapult
Country
United States
Published
29 October 2019
Pages
208
ISBN
9781936787791

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

Natalie Eve Garrett

This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America’s most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times-be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache.

Lev Grossman explains how he survived on “sweet, sour, spicy, salty, unabashedly gluey” General Tso’s tofu after his divorce. Carmen Maria Machado describes her growing pains as she learned to feed and care for herself during her twenties. Claire Messud tries to understand how her mother gave up dreams of being a lawyer to make “a dressed salad of tiny shrimp and avocado, followed by prune-stuffed pork tenderloin.” What makes each tale so moving is not only the deeply personal revelations from celebrated writers, but also the compassion and healing behind the story: the taste of hope.

With contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Doerr, Colum McCann, Maile Meloy, Alexander Chee, Edwidge Danticat, and many more.

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