{"product_id":"9781552453513","title":"Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta's \u003ci\u003eKarma Cola\u003c\/i\u003e and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford's \u003ci\u003eHeat\u003c\/i\u003e , Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavor calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eImaginary Homelands\u003c\/i\u003e , Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNaben Ruthnum \u003c\/b\u003e won the Journey Prize for his short fiction, has been a \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e books columnist, and has written books and cultural criticism for the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e , Hazlitt, and the \u003ci\u003eWalrus\u003c\/i\u003e . His crime fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e , and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley's first novel will appear in 2018. Ruthnum lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048636006640,"sku":"9781552453513","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552453513_p0.jpg?v=1763751620","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552453513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}