Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Abundance

Amit Majmudar
3.78/5 (854 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
A luminous, bittersweet novel of India and the American midwest, immigrants and their first-generation children, and the power of cooking to bridge the gulfs between them

When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents--a diaspora of prosperous doctors and engineers who have successfully managed to keep faith with the old world while claiming the prizes of the new. More successfully than their children--equally ill at ease with Holi and Christmas, bhaji and barbecue, they are mysteries to their parents and themselves.

In the short time between diagnosis and deterioration, Mala sets about learning everything she can about her mother's art of Indian cooking. Perfecting the naan and the raita, the two confront their deepest divisions and failures and learn to speak as well as cook. But when Ronak hits upon the idea of selling their experience as a book and a TV documentary, India and America, immigrant and native-born are torn as never before.

With grace, acuity, and wry compassion, Amit Majmudar has written anew the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations in The Abundance.
Format:
Pages:
255 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0805096582
ISBN13:
9780805096583
kindle Asin:
B0091CAVI4

The Abundance

Amit Majmudar
3.78/5 (854 ratings)
Read Download
A luminous, bittersweet novel of India and the American midwest, immigrants and their first-generation children, and the power of cooking to bridge the gulfs between them

When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents--a diaspora of prosperous doctors and engineers who have successfully managed to keep faith with the old world while claiming the prizes of the new. More successfully than their children--equally ill at ease with Holi and Christmas, bhaji and barbecue, they are mysteries to their parents and themselves.

In the short time between diagnosis and deterioration, Mala sets about learning everything she can about her mother's art of Indian cooking. Perfecting the naan and the raita, the two confront their deepest divisions and failures and learn to speak as well as cook. But when Ronak hits upon the idea of selling their experience as a book and a TV documentary, India and America, immigrant and native-born are torn as never before.

With grace, acuity, and wry compassion, Amit Majmudar has written anew the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations in The Abundance.
Format:
Pages:
255 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0805096582
ISBN13:
9780805096583
kindle Asin:
B0091CAVI4

More Books

Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Passage West

Rishi Reddi

The Heart of Winter

Jonathan Evison

Hana Khan Carries On

Uzma Jalaluddin

The Tennis Partner

Abraham Verghese

Playworld

Adam Ross

Sway With Me

Syed M. Masood

Land of Milk and Honey

C Pam Zhang

China Dolls

Lisa See

Eight Nights to Win Her Heart

Miri White

Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins