Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Author: Kim Sunee
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Category: Biography, Memoirs
Book Format: Paperback

At a South Korean marketplace, three-year-old Kim Sunee's mother deposits her on a bench with a fistful of food and a promise to return. Three days later, a policeman takes the little girl and what is now a fistful of crumbs to a police station, where she learns that her mother isn't coming back. From here, her extraordinary life journey begins. Adopted by a young New Orleans couple, Kim spends her youth as one of only two Asian children in her entire school and church. At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman, and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses and stepmother to his eight-year-old daughter. But despite this glamorous lifestyle, Kim feels like an outsider, and it is in food and cooking that she finds solace and a sense of place.

About Kim Sunee

Kim Sunee was born in South Korea, adopted and raised in New Orleans. She lived in Paris and Provence for 10 years.