Deer hunting in Paris

a memoir of god, guns, and game meat

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Paula Young Lee: Deer hunting in Paris (2013)

303 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-60952-080-9
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OCLC Number:
810120993

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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.

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Subjects

  • Korean American women
  • Children of clergy
  • Hunting
  • Anecdotes

Places

  • Maine