The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir Poverty Professional chef and Emmy Award–winning

Professional chef and Emmy Award–winning host of PBS’s Christina Cooks

we meet police K-9s

and embrace uncomfortable conversations

And one by one

these impassioned essays are not merely a mirror of who we are

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir Poverty Professional chef and Emmy Award–winningThis is the story of Yrsa Daley Ward, and all the things that happened "even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things." It's about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars. It's also about the surreal magic of adolescence, about growing up and discovering the power and