"Frank Bruni’s memoir stands utterly alone . . . (a) brave piece of culinary truth-telling."
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A New York Times best seller, "Born Round" has been named one of the Best 100 books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and by the editors at Amazon.com, which ranked it no. 28 among all books and no. 2 among food-related literature.
Elizabeth Gilbert,
author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Extraordinary . . . a powerful, honest book about desire, shame, identity and self-image."
Publishers Weekly,
starred review and “PW Pick of the Week”
"Brave, brutally honest, often hilarious and truly endearing."
Amazon.com,
official Amazon review; book named one of seven best of August
"Born Round is like the Italian dinners Bruni loves -- served up noisy, fun, heaping and delicious."
New York Times,
Sunday Book Review
"Even the darkest periods are leavened by Bruni's black humor, which recalls that of Augusten Burroughs . . . or perhaps David Sedaris."
Washington Post,
Style section review
About the Book
This is a story about many things: the meaning and importance of family; the search for romantic fulfillment; the insecurities that gnaw at, and trip up, so many of us. But above all it’s about the promise and the peril of a great meal. It’s about hunger—and the difficult, delicate task of answering its call without being undone by it. When I became the restaurant critic of the New York Times five years ago, I was betting that I’d learned a lot about that. In this book I describe—in a manner that I hope will make you laugh at least as often as it makes you wince—the surprising path to that point, as well as my adventures in this amazing, wonderful job.
-- Frank Bruni
