Mãn by Kim Thuy

Mãn

Mãn has three mothers: the one who gave birth to her, the nun who took her in, and her beloved Maman, whose life was irrevocably upended by war. When Mãn is of age, she marries a Vietnamese restaurateur who now lives in Montreal. Discovering that she is a natural chef, Mãn quietly practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion, that evoke place and time and that even bring her customers to tears. Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.

Random House
Fiction

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