Quest For Kimchi, Raquel Look
Quest For Kimchi, Raquel Look
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Quest For Kimchi

Author: Raquel Look

Narrator: Sarah Skaer

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/11/2023

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Quest for Kimchi is the story of Rachel See, an Asian-American lawyer living in New York who abandons her prestigious legal job after a bad breakup and spontaneously moves to Ireland. Can she create the life she's always wanted and defy cultural norms?

Rachel See thinks she has it all figured out, until her boyfriend breaks things off and she's left with a job she dreads. Taking a leap, she decides to move abroad to Ireland, where she takes a position at a company without really knowing what the business does or what the job entails. While there, with the help of a new crew of international friends and her old buddy in New York, Magda, she finally learns to let go of stability and ambition to experience life with all its ups and downs. It's My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Eat Pray Love—with a side of kimchi that accompanies each adventure. Rachel ultimately quits her job to venture off on a soul-searching journey filled with pizza, pasta, prosciutto, and everything in between. There is some praying, a little bit of loving, and a whole lot of healing; a love story between two people you'd least expect; one too many Guinnesses; a lot of crack—err, craic; and a big fat Greek wedding complete with big, phat Greeks.

About Raquel Look

Raquel Look is an Asian-American woman with a background in consulting, living between New York City and Palm Beach. She's spent time in Ireland, Greece, and Italy. She's also worked at a large international law firm and drew on that experience in writing. Quest for Kimchi is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel Price Baker on August 13, 2023

I gave this two stars, which is rare for me. It is similar to EAT.Pray.Love, which I liked. The premise is fine. My reason though for two stars is that I found the use of phonetic spelling for the different characters (German, Italian, Greek) to be insensitive at best. And in some cases, having live......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on April 12, 2023

I wanted to like this book, but I didn’t. I enjoy traveling and eating adventures and kimchi, but this felt all over the place. She starts with a breakup with a guy I don’t care about because there is no investment in him even though she talks about him incessantly. Then jumps around from one countr......more

Goodreads review by George on September 01, 2023

What a charming, slightly edgy, coming of age gastronomic and growth adventure of a very semi-naive protagonist whose personal growth is realized at the closing line, sipping a Guinness! The author made me feel as though I was reliving an experience. Sure, many similar stories have been written but......more

Goodreads review by Neena on September 08, 2024

It was a chaotic fun read. Be prepared for pages of questions Rachel asks herself that don’t get answered. She’s got lots of existential moments, but hey don’t we all......more

Goodreads review by Colline on May 22, 2023

This is a story about a woman who goes on a journey to find herself after the break up from a long term relationship. She plunges into her experiences and along the way rediscovers herself.......more