![]() ![]() Why did women do this, use clothing as a tool in their battle against society? Because you took whatever tools you were given, that’s why.ĭespite her anxiety in the kitchen, Ashna’s world is suffused with food and aromas. ![]() She had fought the blameless six yards of fabric so hard during her initial years in Sripore, and then wearing them had felt like claiming herself during her time in America with Bram. Unlike Anne, Ashna’s mother is still alive, but has been mostly absent from her life, working as a pro-feminist advocate in India she mixes respect for certain parts of traditional culture with otherwise very progressive views, as embodied in her wearing of saris: In Recipe for Persuasion, Ashna is Anne, still adrift 12 years after her father’s death, and struggling to continue running his restaurant despite paralyzing anxiety that makes it impossible for her to cook anything but his outdated recipes, despite her years of elite training in Paris. Loosely inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Sonali Dev’s new book is enriched with culinary allusions, replete with the aromas of tea and spice and based in a modern South Asian family (of royal lineage), as was her prior Austen revamp. ![]()
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