Destination thriller set in THAILAND (and London)
The Language of Baklava
Location(s): Jordan, Syracuse
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood—American and Jordanian—while helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of her impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children.
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