{"product_id":"chinese-parents-dont-say-i-love-you-by-candice-chung-9781761067631","title":"Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery word of Candice Chung's memoir is brave. Even the title \u003ci\u003eChinese Parents Don't Say I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumphant declaration that unshackles both the author and the reader from the cultural taboos that can leave one feeling unmoored. This is an evocative, vulnerable and relatable collection of stories that tenderly shows how food steps up to provide the emotional support, comfort, and safety that humans need, when words cannot.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Hetty Lui McKinnon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA comforting hotpot of a book. Every page offers a new surprising morsel about connection and choice; always nourishing, always delightful, always tender.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Benjamin Law\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTender, elegant, and deeply moving. Chung's poetic prose blazes on the pages. What an incredibly beautiful memoir.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Jessie Tu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA delicious and moving treatise about love and longing, and all the ways families express or hide these life-sustaining things. Candice Chung, who has also been a food critic, writes with a poet's sensibility and a gourmand's sense of lusciousness. Her sentences sing off the page. I am enthralled by this book!\u003c\/strong\u003e - Alice Pung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA world-spanning love story, a book of philosophy via the dinner table, a tender portrait of family trying to communicate: Candice Chung's gorgeous memoir is all of these things and more. \u003ci\u003eChinese Parents Don't Say I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e introduces readers to a vital new literary voice with beautiful and playful prose that is part Nora Ephron, part Maggie Nelson—a book I will be recommending to everyone.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Rebecca May Johnson, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eVittles\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Fires\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have felt the pull of this extravagant wanting elsewhere ... A meal is a shape. It is a container into which we pour our cravings.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 35, when a 13-year relationship ends, food journalist Candice Chung finds herself losing not only her first love, but also her most reliable restaurant review partner. Then her retired Cantonese parents offer to be her new plus-ones, and she faces a dilemma: is it better to eat together in polite silence, or to try saying the unsayable—to broach how, for the past decade, they managed to drift so profoundly apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoon, a geographer enters her life, and the course of their relationship forces Chung to address what's still left unsaid. To do so, she must find a new vocabulary—a way to unscramble what her family has been trying to express all along. Not through words, but with food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI absolutely loved this book about all forms of love, and books and food and distance and travel. It was a real and delightful surprise, full of smart thought and deft words—and also very funny.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Ella Risbridger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA touching, poignant love story about so many great loves in Candice Chung's life—at times heartbreaking, complicated and bittersweet, but also, uplifting and full of tenderness. I loved her precise descriptions of food which were so vivid and flavoursome and yet never overwritten.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Huma Qureshi, author of \u003ci\u003eThings We Do Not Tell the People We Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wonderfully heartwarming memoir from the bottom of the stomach. Candice Chung shows us how love and relationships can be influenced by food culture, and how our dinner tables have shaped the way we understand the world, as well as ourselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Xiaolu Guo, author of \u003ci\u003eRadical\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandice Chung's memoir is poetic, delicious and full of moments of grace and beauty.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Nikesh Shukla, author of \u003ci\u003eBrown Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLike a hilarious, heartfelt and incredibly perceptive conversation you have with a good friend over dinner—the kind you think of many years after the plates and bowls get cleared—Candice Chung's memoir stayed with me like the warmest of memories.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Lee Tran Lam, food writer and creator of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eShould You Really Eat That?\u003c\/i\u003e podcast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis will undo anyone whose love language is food; anyone whose connection with others depends on it.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Tara Wigley, co-author of \u003ci\u003eOttolenghi SIMPLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA tender, wise and witty memoir of forging connections through food and love. 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