Home Made
Liz Hauck
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"Liz Hauck reveals fascinating, sobering, and urgent truths about boyhood, inequality, and the power and promise of community."--Piper Kerman, New York Times bestselling author of Orange Is the New Black
Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn't know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off of her father's long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners.
"The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries," Liz writes, "and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that's why, when we don't know what else to do, we feed our neighbors."
Capturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection.
Product Details
| Publisher | Dial Press |
| Publish Date | June 08, 2021 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780525512431 |
| Dimensions | 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.4 inches | 1.4 pounds |
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Reviews
"At every turn in Home Made, Liz Hauck suggests that we all ought to build a longer table, instead of a higher wall. With grace and tenderness, this memoir utterly affirms that it is the relationship that heals. Food brings us to the table, but cherishing leads us to joy and bravery. This is an important book because it reminds us not to venture to the margins to make a difference, but to allow the folks there to make us different. Your heart will be altered by this book."--Gregory Boyle, S.J., New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart and founder of Homeboy Industries
"Wise and empathetic, Liz Hauck describes the process of coming together through cooking and eating. Home Made is a meditation on hunger of all forms, of the limits and meaning of volunteerism, and the ways in which we continue the work of our deceased loved ones. Never cynical and always self-aware, Hauck knows that we may not rescue one another--but we can create a shared space where one is not alone."--Michelle Kuo, author of Reading with Patrick
"Home Made is a story of the promises we make and try to keep, to ourselves and to others. Liz Hauck tells a tender story about a group home for teenagers, and she reveals fascinating, sobering, and urgent truths about boyhood, inequality, and the power and promise of community."--Piper Kerman, New York Times bestselling author of Orange Is the New Black
"Home Made is an affecting, thoughtful look at the lives of boys in transitional moments and a personal reflection on a father's legacy."--Booklist (starred review)
"A moving memoir about how 'systems fail but food is revolutionary.' Hauck creates indelible portraits . . . A captivating debut."--Kirkus (starred review)
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