Author Talk with Grace M. Cho: Tastes Like War

Join us for an insightful chat with award-winning author Grace M. Cho as she discusses her memoir, Tastes Like War.

Cho grew up the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were among the few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details. When she was 15, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life.

Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, this follows a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. She learned to cook dishes from her mother’s childhood, inviting the past into the present, and holding space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. Through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive.

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