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Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
Audiobook3 hours

Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

Written by Naben Ruthnum

Narrated by Matthew Edison

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity.

With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta's Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford's Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavor calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience.

Naben Ruthnum won the Journey Prize for his short fiction, has been a National Post books columnist, and has written books and cultural criticism for the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, and the Walrus. His crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Joyland, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley's first novel will appear in 2018. Ruthnum lives in Toronto.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherECW Audio
Release dateMar 12, 2019
ISBN9781770566019

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    This book was so much more then I expected, it is a book about curry and its cultural importance, reading and race also immigration and immigrates kids who have always lived in their new country. It's great that it's about a Canadian writer so we have a view of racism explicit and implied that covers not just the U.S. but the white West. Oh and there are also recipes.