{"product_id":"books-fasting-feasting-a-fmt-by-anita-desai","title":"Fasting, Feasting A Fmt","description":"A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult , demanding but mostly, good hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, liek her sister's or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terriying to the yound Indian adolescent far from home.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507350462737,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780099284727.jpg?v=1778124732","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-fasting-feasting-a-fmt-by-anita-desai","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}