Samantha Ellis is a playwright and author, whose books include How to be a Heroine, about the women in fiction who shaped her ideas of the world, and Take Courage, a biography of Anne Brontë. Her latest book, Chopping Onions on My Heart, is her gorgeous, devastating memoir about trying to preserve the language of her Iraqi-Jewish parents – and the culture that goes with it. Ellis writes with insight and tenderness about food, language, generational trauma, displacement and parenthood, as she considers which aspects of the lives of her ancestors she wants to save, and which to relinquish. So...
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