A review by rebeccamm
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey

3.0

Wanted to like this more, but the author's refusal to go below surface emotions or to interrogate her own family's history, made this book feel thin. There were many narrative threads that could have been explored and yet everything just felt fluffy. I'm not great at introspection and clearly Madhur Jaffrey isn't either...but deep respect for her cooking.