Prairie Lights
15 South Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
United States
Free and open to the public.
Karen Babine will read from her book All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City. This memoir in the form of micro-essays chronicles Karen’s experiences finding ways to nourish and care for her mother after she’s diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. This poignant, bittersweet exploration of illness, consumption, fertility, grief, and the communal power of food is a “lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making” (Amy Thielen).
Karen Babine
Karen Babine is two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer.
Feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer? Generous and bittersweet, these essays ponder the intimate connections between food, family, and illness.