Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home A Memoir Audiobook

" The third star is for the recipes. This book was given to me two years ago and I never wanted to read it. But a dry spell forced me to pull something off my shelves - this ended up being the thing I pulled down to keep at work for downtime. Good thing I didn't have high expectations. She really does make you want to shake her. Beautiful things seem to just fall into her lap but we just hear the negative, the negative, the negative. Ugh. The recipes look excellent though. "

" Started out strong, but with a rather weak ending. In a sea of books that are trying to incorporate recipes into a story line...this one doesn't do the best job. "

" Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home had a interesting premise, but didn't really deliver in the way I thought it would. The title is based on the fact that Kim Sunee was abandoned as a three-year-old in a crowded Korean marketplace clutching a handful of food. Her adopted parents wanted a baby and didn't intend to take her home, but she jumped in their laps for a week and they decide to adopt her. She lives in New Orleans as a child and inherits a love of cooking from her grandfather. The novel skims over her childhood and after college, she moves to Europe and becomes a "kept" woman of an older, wealthy French businessman. This part of the novel was interesting to me because her life seemed very glamorous and she struggles with adjusting to her new "stepdaughter" and loses a friend to cancer. The novel falls apart in the last third, as Sunee leaves the businessman, starts therapy, and finds a new emotionally distant boyfriend. I couldn't keep track of all the new friends and boyfriends that are introduced in the last part of the book and it seemed like she was in a hurry to finish. The book never addresses her adoption and childhood in the way I thought it would. I did like the book and the recipes Sunee included and I found Sunee tremendously interesting but the book could have benefited from better editing. "

" love books with recipes, well written and entertaining "

" Sunee is at times sympathetic and frustrating, allowing herself to be controlled by Olivier while voicing vague complaints of his magnanimous plans for her life. Because the story is true and Sunee's circumstances poignant, I was torn between empathy and wanting to shake her out of her (dis)comfort. A Korean orphan who is adopted and brought to live in Louisiana, then searches Europe and Asia for her soul, Sunee has a unique multi-cultural perspective on life and food as she searches for her own place in life. "

" This was an overall good read. I like the journey, I love the food. I disliked the mental anguish. Not her having issues, but just something about the writing of it just turned me off. BUT, it did end with my wanting to know: Where are they now? "

" i didn't mind the book, i think the writer needed to be older and have more life experience before writing her story, seems like she just felt to sorry for her self she had a wonderful life compared to many people adopted and she was quiet self centred... "

" I loved this book. A beautiful, interesting and deep book. "

" A light summer read with some good recipes. The author was a bit on the pretentious side. Her quest to find where she came from was not half as interesting as what she eats. "

" I didn't finish it. I thought the book was pointless, directionless, and our heroine whiney, ungrateful, and unlikable. I hope someday she finds a way to be content with her life. "

" not quite taken with this book as others have been... "

" A beautifully written memoir about love, food and travel from a Korean born orphan who as an adult was the mistress to the founder of L'Occitaine and his homes in Provence and Paris. Kim finds herself through food and cooking and includes some great recipes to try. "

" Different than I thought it would be. It was nothing like eat pray and love, but still pretty good. If I spoke French, I would have enjoyed it much more. She would switch languages, and although it might only be a word or a short phrase - no translation began to get old. "

" But a life empty of meaning. "

" A fun summer page turner full of Kim Sunee's experiences with food and friends and finding herself in Stockholm, Paris, New Orleans and beyond. "

" Loved the recipes but did not love all the hemming and hawing about what to do when I grow up thing going on. I would recommend but it is kind of heavy reading. "

" Was - OK - didn't identify or feel too drawn in to main character. Wanted more info on her transition back to life in US. "

" This book is so good! I love all the French language refreshers! Who doesn't love a book with recipes in it? It makes you shop at L'Occitane, even though it's super expensive! I felt a connection with Kim after reading this book. "

" Amazing. I related to it all the more because of the author. "

" I couldn't find a reason to finish it. It just wasn't going anywhere. "

" I enjoyed this true story of an Korean-American young woman, who was adopted, searching for home. Mainly set in France, with great cooking stories and interesting people in her life. It is also about love of different kinds and the hole in her heart from the mother who abandoned her. "

" A light summer read with some good recipes. The author was a bit on the pretentious side. Her quest to find where she came from was not half as interesting as what she eats. "

" This was a waste of a read...A woman where nothing seems to make her happy except cooking and eating. Otherwise, she is lost,lonely,unhappy.No wonder it was on the markdown table... "

" overly simplified perspective, trite recipes with redundant ingredients and little creativity in preparation, childish view of relationships "

" I didn't finish it. I thought the book was pointless, directionless, and our heroine whiney, ungrateful, and unlikable. I hope someday she finds a way to be content with her life. "

" Sunee has no real family ties. This feeling is so foreignl to me that I'm hard pressed to identify with her as a narrator. "