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Kim Sunée was only three years old when her mother left her on a marketplace bench with a fistful of food and promised to be right back. When she was taken in by the police three days later and told she had been abandoned, all she had left in the world was a handful of crumbs. Through her adoption by a couple in New Orleans, her adolescence as only one of two Asian children in her community and her relationship with a famous French businessman, the pursuit of fine food has been a constant for Kim in her search for an identity that seems at once intimate and elusive.

Reading from her new memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home and taking questions, Kim Sunée will bring the audience along on her lyrical journey of sustenance and self, from Korea to America to Provence.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

About the Presenter

Kim Sunée was born in South Korea, adopted, and raised in New Orleans. She lived in Europe for more than ten years where she owned an all-poetry bookshop in Paris. She is the author of Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (January 2008, Grand Central). Her book, a memoir with recipes, was selected for the Spring 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and is a January 2008 Booksense Pick. She is the founding food editor of Cottage Living and worked previously as a food editor for Southern Living.

*The mission of Also-Known-As, Inc. is to empower the voice of adult international adoptees, build cultural bridges, transform perceptions of race, and acknowledge the loss of the birth country, culture, language and biological family experienced by international adoptees.



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