Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat

By Paula Young Lee

Book Overview

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 caf 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609520807
• ISBN13: 9781609520809
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"