![]() ![]() I worked in restaurants for the same reason Chang did. As a mostly vegetarian, I was not going to spend the small amount of cash I had at a place with a motto of “Fuck Vegetarians.” I never joined them, because Chang’s reputation preceded him. Many of my friends at school would take the train into New York City on the weekend to eat at Chang’s restaurant Momofuku. I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America a few years after Chang finished culinary school. The author’s lifelong attempts to please his father are an undercurrent that runs through the book ![]() Chang lost his edge at golf when he hit puberty and his body changed. This vital missing piece loomed large throughout the book.Ĭhang recounts growing up with perfectionist parents, and the pressure his father put on him to become a young golf phenom. I found myself continually wishing that someone would step in to tell the author that a community of people with bipolar and mental health disabilities exists and an even larger community of disabled people. A disability memoir, in my opinion, requires that an author be aware that he is disabled. David Chang’s memoir Eat a Peach is a book about disability, but it is not a disability memoir. ![]()
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