As part of our Online Author Series\, you& rsquo\;re invited to an insightful chat with award-winning author Grace M. Cho as she discusses her memoir\, "Tastes Like War."
\nGrace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar ho stess he met abroad. There were few other immigrants in their xenophobic s mall town during the Cold War\, where identity was politicized by everyday details &mdash\; language\, cultural references\, memories and food. When Grace was 15\, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia\ , a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life.
\nPart food memoir\, part sociological investigation\, "Tastes Like War " is a hybrid text about a daughter&rsquo\;s search through intimate and g lobal history for the roots of her mother&rsquo\;s schizophrenia. In her m other&rsquo\;s final years\, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother& rsquo\;s childhood in order to invite the past into the present\, and to h old space for her mother&rsquo\;s multiple voices at the table. Through ca reful listening over these shared meals\, Grace discovered not only the th ings that broke the brilliant\, complicated woman who raised her\, but als o the things that kept her alive.
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\nAbout the Author: \;Grace M. Cho is associate professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island. She received a Ph.D. in sociology and women&rsquo\;s studies from the CUNY Gra duate Center and an M.Ed. from Harvard School of Education. Her work cross es disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage popular audiences. From 200 5 to 2007\, she was a contributing performance artist for "Still Present P asts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War\," a collaborative art projec t based on the oral histories of Korean War survivors and their children. Her participation in "Still Present Pasts" influenced the form and content of her first book\, "Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame\, Secrecy and th e Forgotten War" (University of Minnesota\, 2008)\, which combined fiction \, performance\, autoethnography and sociological research. It won a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association for its innovative m ethodology. Her second book\, "Tastes Like War\," was a finalist for the 2021 Nati onal Book Award for Nonfiction and the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific Am erican Literature Award for Adult Nonfiction.
\nThis event is part o f \;DBRL's \;Online Author Ser ies\, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be available for later viewing on the \;author series site.
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