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This writer will break your heart. Beautiful humans with gutwrenching decisions to make. The despair is palpable. The trilogy follows a Bangladeshi family from the 1970s Revolution and separation of Pakistan to today. The granddaughter, a paleontologist, is incredibly independent but is still tied to tradition. Anam has brilliantly conceived an allegory of a precursor to today's whale to the connections of family stories. PLEASE SOMEONE READ THIS!

#foodandlit I‘m a week behind! I finished this book last weekend and went to a Bangladeshi restaurant for lunch today. I ordered lamb Biryani and it was delish. This book is an LGBTQ+ young adult book. It really dives into the Bangladeshi culture as Rukhsana felt torn between her cultures as an American born teen.

Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Bengali, with roots in what are now #India and #Bangladesh. Gitanjali is a collection of spiritual poems written in Bengali, and translated by the author himself into a style of English that takes some getting used to, but it is worth it.
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Book 2 of the trilogy: the civil war has ended in a brand new country #Bangladesh, but war wounds deeply affect siblings Maya and Sohail and their relationship with one another. Told in 2 timeframes, just after the war in the early 1970s, and in 1984, when Maya returns home after a decade fleeing home in anger at what her brother has become. Their stories unwind through time. Tying their stories together is Sohail‘s young son Zaid, and Maya‘s ⬇️

I just finished the tagged book and it was excellent (review to come)!! And it was an excellent reading month—14!!

2 books wrapping up last month‘s #authoramonth
4 Percival Everett books for #authoramonth
1 John Scalzi for #authoramonth
1 wrapping up #Rwanda for #foodandlit
3 for #Bangladesh #foodandlit
2 for #Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit
1 for #Greenland #foodandlit

I couldn‘t possibly pick a favorite! Half of them were 5-stars!

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Lovely description of food

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Fantasy novel set in Dhaka, #Bangladesh. I started it nearly 3 weeks ago but stopped. Reading about the father of 1 of the MC falling into a supernatural coma just when my father was being operated on spooked me a bit. Then RL took a turn for the worse & I stopped reading altogether. I picked it up again as I was enjoying it but I've reached the “saggy“ middle. We'll see how I fare.
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This book doesn‘t often mention food so I just had to jump on this reference. Photo of a phuchka from the Internet.

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A beautifully written book that will leave you in tears. Set during the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. Anam does not hide the savagery of the war.