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ISBN10: 1969421118
ISBN13: 9781969421112
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781969421112
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In My Monstrous Family Cookbook, JI Daniels serves up a searing, darkly funny hybrid memoir told through the language of food. At its heart is a long-avoided truth: a deeply traumatic moment from childhood involving the author's biological father, an event both unremembered and unspeakable. But rather than dwell in the shadows of that memory, the author invites readers into a kitchen where stories and survival are folded into batter and simmered into stews.
Structured as a cookbook for those who hate cooking blogs, the memoir uses the format of recipes, each one acting as an essay, a standalone dish that contributes to the larger feast of a life lived and interrogated. Fried chicken becomes a declaration of love. Croquembouche turns into a performance of social grace. Shrubs and cocktails carry the weight of mortality, masculinity, and inherited trauma. Together, these recipes and reflections explore how food becomes a stand-in for what can't be said, a method of storytelling when language fails.Blending humor, heartbreak, and biting insight, My Monstrous Family Cookbook draws on the literary traditions of Kiese Laymon's Heavy, Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking, and the sensuous, narrative-rich novels of Ruth Ozeki and Laura Esquivel. It examines southern culinary history and its entanglements with race, appropriation, family, and identity. Each recipe is both offering and withholding, an invitation to taste, remember, and confront the messy contradictions of family and self.This is not just a memoir. It's a meal you won't forget, savory, complex, and brimming with emotional heat.
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