All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Squillante, Sheila

All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781955904896)

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All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Squillante, Sheila

All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food

$17.95
All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Squillante, Sheila

All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Through lyrical and intimate personal essays, All Things Edible, Random and Odd delivers a portrait not just of a father who died, but of a daughter who kept living. Sheila Squillante's heartfelt and humorous essays introduce us to a father-a 1980s businessman and early adopter of the term "foodie"--and a daughter's complicated grief. It also moves beyond that grief, to embrace the intricacies and delights of how life grows from it.
Food remains central throughout the collection with essays that serve up a menu (and sometimes recipes!) of Hawaiian beach seaweed, turtle soup, and fermented Icelandic shark. Nostalgia clashes with reality, through stories connecting memories to taste.
With poetic prose, Squillante expresses the complexities of unresolved relationships, the importance of shared experiences, and how family and food make us who we are.


Author: Sheila Squillante
ISBN-10: 1955904898
ISBN-13: 9781955904896
Publisher: Clash Books
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2023
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
By Sheila Squillante
By Sheila Squillante
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SHEILA SQUILLANTE is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from BrickHouse Books, and Beautiful Nerve, as well as three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. She is also co-author, along with Sandra L. Faulkner, of the writing craft book, Writing the Personal: Getting Your Stories Onto the Page. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Rumpus, River Teeth, Brevity, Bennington Review, Barrelhouse and elsewhere. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she is Executive Editor of The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her family.

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