Eating Women, Telling Tales

Following on her bestselling The Anger of Aubergines, Bulbul Sharma brings us another collection of women's food stories from the Indian kitchen. A young woman, neglected by her rakish husband, decides to kill him with kindnessand stuff him with food; another cooks manically; a third helps herself to money and small knick-knacks from her husband's pockets where she finds the different scents of each of the women he has been with...Along with the husband is the ubiquitous mother-in-law who moves into the newly-married couple's bedroom barely a month after they have set up home. Each story is, by turns, funny, poignant, macabre. Bulbul Sharma's mastery of the stories of small actors and the drama of daily life, is very much in evidence in these delightful stories.