David Sedaris meets Jenny Lawson in the hilarious, heartfelt, and
long-awaited memoir from the beloved and celebrated founder of
Leite's Culinaria The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the
beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's
Culinaria-a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud-funny
story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born
into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the
1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese
home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer
with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic, "Banana," as
his mother endearingly called him, yearned to live in a
middle-class house with a swinging kitchen door, just like the ones
on television, and fell in love with everything French, thanks to
his Portuguese and French-Canadian godmother. But David also
struggled with the emotional devastation of manic depression. Until
he was diagnosed in his mid-thirties, David found relief from his
wild mood swings in learning about food, watching Julia Child, and
cooking for others. Notes on a Banana is his heartfelt,
unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting
himself, and turning his love of food into an award-winning career.
Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David
looks back on the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of
being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic
Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer,
cookbook author, and web publisher, to his twenty-four-year
relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers as
"The One," which began with (what else?) food. Throughout the
journey, David returns to his stoves and tables, and those of his
family, as a way of grounding himself. A blend of Kay Redfield
Jamison's An Unquiet Mind; food memoirs by Ruth Reichl, Anthony
Bourdain, and Gabrielle Hamilton; and the character-rich
storytelling of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and Jenny
Lawson, Notes on a Banana is a feast that dazzles, delights, and
ultimately heals.
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