Description "My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing.
She lives in Minnesota..
She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She also edits Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies .
About the Author Karen Babine is the author of Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life , winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award for memoir/creative nonfiction, and a finalist for the Midwest Book Award and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.
What draws us toward food metaphors to describe disease? What is the power of language, of naming, in a medical culture where patients are too often made invisible? How do we seek meaning where none is to be found--and can we create it from scratch? And how, Babine asks as she bakes cookies with her small niece and nephew, does a family create its own food culture across generations? Generous and bittersweet, All the Wild Hungers is an affecting chronicle of one family\'s experience of illness and of a writer\'s culinary attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.
In these essays, Babine ponders the intimate connections between food, family, and illness.
My mother\'s uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying." When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine--a cook, collector of thrifted vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt--can\'t help but wonder: feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer? And so she commits herself to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving headfirst into the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast.
Description "My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing
