Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Mango and Masala: Food in the Immigrant Novel
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Mango and Masala: Food in the Immigrant Novel

The buffet of novels in which food takes center stage is abundant and delicious. As a nonfiction food writer and a dabbler in fiction I find a wide array as I try to research how fiction writers, especially novelists, depict food. Simple preliminary Googling suggests more than fifty such novels. Being a former “immigrant” in America—or…