New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - "When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.
Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable.. . At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter. Kim takes readers on a lyrical journey from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, along the way serving forth her favorite recipes." 372 pp.

Dallas TX: Baskerville Publishers, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the author best known for the literate thriller 'Tony and Susan'. "Sometimes indecipherable, often intriguing, this literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel opens with a man writing about his life. The man reveals that he was formerly known as Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, who tried unsuccessfully to drown himself in the Ohio River. Fleeing a past that may have involved the murder of his neighbor with a hammer, he hitches rides east, assuming and discarding aliases along the way. When an eccentric billionaire summons him to his New York office and gives him a grant he can't refuse - $30 million to become yet another new person and cut all ties to the past - he becomes the miraculously fortunate Stephen Trace. Unfortunately for Trace, the detritus of Peter Gregory's life keeps resurfacing. Wright skillfully conveys how we choose to elude our pasts rather than face them, molding ourselves into different people for separate occasions." (Kirkus Reviews)" 292 pp. ISBN: -88090912X.