Notes on a Banana Unabridged: a memoir of food, love, and manic depression
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria-a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic, "Banana" as his mother endearingly called him, obsessed over proper hair care, yearned to live in a middle-class house with a swinging kitchen door like the ones on television, and fell in love with everything French, thanks to his Portuguese and French-Canadian godmother. But David also struggled with the emotional devastation of bipolar disorder. Until he was diagnosed in his mid-thirties, David found relief from his wild mood swings in cooking, Julia Child, and a Viking stove he named "Thor." Notes on a Banana is his heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting himself, and turning his love of food into an award-winning career. Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his twenty-three-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers as "The One," which began with (what else?) food. Woven throughout these stories are the dishes David loves-the tastes that led him to happiness, health, and success. A blend of Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, the food memoirs of Ruth Reichl, Anthony Bourdain, and Gabrielle Hamilton, and the character-rich storytelling of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and Jenny Lawson, Notes on a Banana is a feast that dazzles, delights, and, ultimately, heals.
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Leite, D. (2017). Notes on a Banana Unabridged: a memoir of food, love, and manic depression. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Leite, David. 2017. Notes On a Banana Unabridged: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Leite, David, Notes On a Banana Unabridged: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression. [United States], HarperAudio, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Leite, David. Notes On a Banana Unabridged: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio, 2017.
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