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Information sur l'oeuvreDinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me par Sutanya Dacres
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Biography & Autobiography.
African American Nonfiction.
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HTML:From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own "happily-ever-after." But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her. Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris??all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means. Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn't look quite how you expect Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I didn’t know anything about the author before beginning this memoir. She is the creator and host of the podcast “Dinner for One.” This is her debut novel, and even though I didn’t like it, I was curious to find out how cooking in Paris saved her.
First the good – most of her book is spent in Paris, and author Sutanya Dacres describes the streets, bistros, living spaces, food, and ambiance so realistically that I felt like I was right there with her. I enjoyed her love of food and her discovery of learning to cook that helps with her emotional healing. And there are several interesting looking and out of the ordinary recipes at the end of the book.
But….the rest of the book was barely readable for me. I didn’t relate to her heavy drinking and random sexual encounters lifestyle. Though in her mid-to late 20s, she responded like a self-absorbed teenager to everyone, but she should have known what she was giving up as well as gaining when she moved to France, and when she married her French boyfriend, who she refers to as TFM. While she knew the French culture was very different from her Jamaican-born and Brooklyn-bred life, she expected everyone to cater to her as an American. And then she felt sorry for herself when people were offended or less than welcoming by her cultural gaffes. She romanticized how her life and her marriage would go, and reality was very different.
She describes several scenarios where she doesn’t fit in, both with TFM’s family and friends, and at a couple of jobs she is fortunate enough to secure even though she barely speaks the language. She is good at describing how others misinterpret her but never realizes she is responsible for the way people respond.
Most of the book describes her trouble navigating cultural differences, with her marital difficulties on top of that. We don’t specifically find out why her husband TFM leaves her, but I can’t blame him. It isn’t until the last few chapters of the book that she begins to cook, so the title is misleading. I can’t recommend this memoir of a high maintenance drama queen. (