Serving crazy with curry
Subtitle: a novel
By: Amulya Malladi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ballantine reader's circle
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: East Indian American women -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.; Women -- India -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; India -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Between the pressures to marry and become a traditional Indian wife and the humiliation of losing her job in Silicon Valley, Devi is on the edge - where the only way out seems to be to jump." "Yet Devi's plans to end it all fall short when she is saved by the last person she wants to see: her mother. Forced to move in with her parents until she recovers, Devi refuses to speak. Instead, she cooks nonstop. And not just the usual fare, but off-the-wall twists on Indian classics, like blueberry curry chicken and Cajun prawn biryani. Now family meals are no longer obligations. Devi's parents, her sister, and her brother-in-law can't get enough - and they suddenly find their lives taking turns as surprising as the impromptu creations Devi whips up in the kitchen each night. But then a stranger appears out of the blue. Devi, it seems, had a secret - one that will touch many a nerve in her tightly wound family. Though exposing some shattering truths, the secret will also gather them back together in ways they never dreamed possible."--BOOK JACKET.