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Serving Crazy with Curry...
"Serving Crazy with Curry" is about an Indian-American woman, Devi Veturi, who after losing her job in a Silicon Valley company and suffering a miscarriage, which even her own family did not know about, ponders her life and then decides to kill herself. She realizes that everything that has happened to her is her own fault, and only she can deal with it as she knows how.
She chooses the time and the method, plans it all out, and puts her plan into motion. She forgot that she made a mistake the previous year, giving her mother an extra key. On the morning when Devi attempts to kill herself nosy mom happens to come by and lets herself in with her key to find Devi in the nick of time. Devi does not consider this "saving" to be a favor. She stops talking completely and after discharge from the hospital, takes over her mother's kitchen. She started cooking new dishes that are nothing like those ever produced in her home. With this new found activity, her emotions come out through it. Extra spicy when she is angry, milder when she is mellow. Her family which includes her mother, father, sister Shobha, ultra modern grand ma and brother-in-law Girish, don't know what to make of this.
Truths long held inside are revealed as the family recovers from Devi's suicide attempt. The book is touching, poignant, and funny. It dealt with a serious problem in a sensitive and humorous way. What bothered me a little bit is the language Devi and her sister used with her father(who was an ex army officer), mother and grand ma. Being in the United States for so many years, I do not know a single desi soul, who talk to their parents using bad words. No matter what the circumstances, I've always seen so much respect in their behaviors and language.
The Mango Season and A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi, you'll find in my Ruined by Reading set :)
Amulya Malladi always manage to give away some cool recipes through her books, no matter its Pickle/achar recipes from The Mango Season or the Spicy lamb curries from Serving Crazy with Curry :)
Serving Crazy with Curry...
"Serving Crazy with Curry" is about an Indian-American woman, Devi Veturi, who after losing her job in a Silicon Valley company and suffering a miscarriage, which even her own family did not know about, ponders her life and then decides to kill herself. She realizes that everything that has happened to her is her own fault, and only she can deal with it as she knows how.
She chooses the time and the method, plans it all out, and puts her plan into motion. She forgot that she made a mistake the previous year, giving her mother an extra key. On the morning when Devi attempts to kill herself nosy mom happens to come by and lets herself in with her key to find Devi in the nick of time. Devi does not consider this "saving" to be a favor. She stops talking completely and after discharge from the hospital, takes over her mother's kitchen. She started cooking new dishes that are nothing like those ever produced in her home. With this new found activity, her emotions come out through it. Extra spicy when she is angry, milder when she is mellow. Her family which includes her mother, father, sister Shobha, ultra modern grand ma and brother-in-law Girish, don't know what to make of this.
Truths long held inside are revealed as the family recovers from Devi's suicide attempt. The book is touching, poignant, and funny. It dealt with a serious problem in a sensitive and humorous way. What bothered me a little bit is the language Devi and her sister used with her father(who was an ex army officer), mother and grand ma. Being in the United States for so many years, I do not know a single desi soul, who talk to their parents using bad words. No matter what the circumstances, I've always seen so much respect in their behaviors and language.
The Mango Season and A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi, you'll find in my Ruined by Reading set :)
Amulya Malladi always manage to give away some cool recipes through her books, no matter its Pickle/achar recipes from The Mango Season or the Spicy lamb curries from Serving Crazy with Curry :)