children of the mentally ill

"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"--Provided by publisher.

Sympathetic and informative advice about dealing with the emotional illness of friends and relatives--how to recognize the problem, what to do, what not to do, and how to get help.

Offers teenagers advice on how to cope with a parent's mental illness.

Mira Bartok describes life with her mother, Norma, whose struggle with schizophrenia forced Mira and her sister to leave in order to stay safe, but when the sisters learn that Norma is dying, they travel to Cleveland to reunite with their mother and find keys to her storage unit, where they find photos, toys, and other mementos that remind them of childhood.