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Khabaar
- Author
- Madhushree Ghosh
- Narrator
- Deepti Gupta
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 July 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
Critics Review
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“Deepti Gupta is a soulful voice for this feminist memoir about migration, food, and staying true to one’s choices. As narrator, she is a believable stand-in for the author.”
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“Ghosh writes especially well through her memories, from tender to terrifying…Ghosh clearly sees the downsides of food culture—indentured servitude, racism, oversugared and watered-down variations of her favorite dishes—but her mood is also often celebratory.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“[A] new, very powerful, and entrancing work. I highly recommend it. It’s unforgettable.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels
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“More than a story, a political history, or a family legacy, as Ghosh takes the food essay into entirely new directions.”
Alexander Chee, author, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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“Wildly original. With her scientific sensibility, chef’s palate, and poet’s heart, Madhushree Ghosh has given us a singular and spectacular read.
Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk
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Details
- Author
- Madhushree Ghosh
- Narrator
- Deepti Gupta
- Duration
- 7 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200963690
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Travel and holiday, Biography: general, Cookery / food and drink, Ethnic studies
Synopsis
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
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