Deer Hunting in Paris
- Authors
- Lee, Paula Young
- Publisher
- Travelers' Tales
- Tags
- biography , bio026000 biography & autobiography , personal memoirs , travel
- ISBN
- 9781609520809
- Date
- 2012-09-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 12.46 MB
- Lang
- en
What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan world. Sneezing madly from hay fever, Lee recovers her roots in rural Maine by running after a headless chicken, learning how to sight in a rifle, shooting skeet, and butchering animals. Along the way, she figures out how to keep her boyfriend’s conservative Republican family from "mistaking” her for a deer and shooting her at the clothesline.