0 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:0.0

Karen Babine’s Followers (27)

Karen’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (2)
did-not-finish (0)

Karen Babine

Goodreads Author

Website

http://www.karenbabine.com

Twitter

karenbabine

Genre

Nonfiction

Member Since

January 2015

edit data

Karen Babine is the award-winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015), both winners of the Minnesota Book Award for memoir/creative nonfiction.

All the Wild Hungers chronicles her mother's rare cancer, Babine's attempt to cook for her mother, and the food metaphors of cancer, all the while collecting vintage cast iron from thrift stores. It is described by James Beard Award-winning chef and writer Amy Thielen as "A lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making. Karen Babine’s language is the plush dough she kneads, her observations as elastic as gluten bubbles. By the book’s conclus ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Karen Babine questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Karen Babine’s books

Average rating: 3.96 · 377 ratings · 90 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer 4.29 avg rating — 192 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo 3.44 avg rating — 118 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life 3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars