Tastes Like War: A Memoir

"Growing up, Grace M. Cho’s mother, a Korean “military bride” named Koonja, was a dynamic force in their small town, cooking for their white neighbors and foraging the nearby forest for wild blackberries and mushrooms. But things began to change when Cho turned 15 and her mother began to hear voices. In the decades that followed, schizophrenia took over. Koonja stopped cooking and refused to leave the house. In this powerful memoir, Cho writes about the trauma that shaped her mother’s life and contributed to her mental illness – and about her own efforts to reclaim the mother she knew by cooking traditional Korean dishes."