Monsoon Diary: Reveries and Recipes from South India book-new-arrivals-2024-11-02 After a harrowing trip upriver

After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal

including: - the historical

Simmering with slow-burning menace

and it is up to her to navigate a passage to safety for herself and her daughter

Only 12 men came back out

Monsoon Diary: Reveries and Recipes from South India book-new-arrivals-2024-11-02 After a harrowing trip upriverMONSOON DIARY weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines authentic vegetarian recipes from South India with tales from Shoba Narayan's life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and reflections on Indian culture. Shoba recounts her childhood in South India, a portrait of small town life richly populated by characters like the flower woman who brings jasmine for the gods, the milkman who names his cows after his wives, and the iron man