I picked up Tongue by Kyung Ran Jo at the San Francisco Airport when we were there for six hours last week. I know getting new books kind of defeats the purpose of the challenge, but I like reading Korean authors, and I knew I would finish the good good pig quickly, so I bought it. I finished the good good pig on January 4, and the review is half written, so I try and get it finished and posted within the next couple days. I started Tongue yesterday, and with all the plane travel, I am nearly finished with it. Here’s a description of Tongue from the publisher’s website:
“Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman’s culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste. Returning to the kitchen of the Italian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction.
Tongue is a voluptuous, intimate story of a gourmet relying on her food-centric worldview to emerge from heartbreak, a mesmerizing, delicately plotted novel at once shocking and profoundly familiar.”
