Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunée

An abandoned girl is adopted in Korea at age three and is then raised in New Orleans. But the focus of her memoir, Trail of Crumbs, is on the years of her twenties when she lives in Sweden and France. She becomes involved with a very wealthy married man who gives her a beautiful life in Provence and Paris; yet Kim still feels rootless and restless. All the while, Kim is cooking, eating, and emerging herself in the world of food. Her memoir is full of recipes and has a recipe index at the end. Even though this is a fascinating life story and is well written, it is easy for the reader to feel that Kim is whiney and unappreciative. Since the book has been published, her adoptive mother has stopped talking to her.