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Summary: As spicy as mango pickle!
Review: I love Indian food and this book transported me to India right away. All those recipes in the book are just fabulous because the cooking is integrated so well with the story. I thought that Priya's boyfriend, Nick was a little too understanding, but hey, I am sure there are nice guys out there.
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Summary: A reader from New York
Review: I really loved this book. It was so realistic with the way society is today and some of the decisions that have to be make that may not be acceptable to our family. The character in this book had decisions to make and she seemed to go with what was in her heart inlight of everything that transpired. I can really understand what she was going through because a person I love has to make the same decisions. This book was well written, I never put it down and I def. recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I usually don't like to respond to other reviewers as I believe that everyone should have their own opinion but I just have to this time. I liked this book very much, and even if I didn't, I still wouldn't have thought it was worse than "For Matrimonial Purposes," which was terrible, terrible, terrible. The writing in that book was poor and...not very good."The Mango Season" is a very tasty novel about a young woman who has to choose between what she wants and what her family wants her to do. Amulya Malladi is a a fabulous writer and I enjoyed this book so much that I went and bought her first book. I haven't read it yet but I'm sure it's wonderful too. One more thing, why is the reviwer (bcopher) upset about what was said in page 224? I don't understand why anyone should be annoyed or irritated to find out the skin color of Priya's fiance. I thought it was a great twist and a perfect way to show our (the reader's) feelings about skin color and race. We should all be as color blind as Priya!
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Summary: Mothers & Daughters!
Review: If you don't get along with your mother or even if you do, this is a great book to read. I loved reading about the dynamics between Priya and her mother. Looks like no matter where you live and what country you are from some relationships and dynamics stay the same. I loved this book! I could all but smell the food that was being cooked in the kitchen. This is one of the most Indian books I have read, yet, I don't feel that it's just about India. This book is about all of us who want to live our life on our terms. (After I finished reading this book, I read Amulya Malladi's first book, "A Breath of Fresh Air" and it was wonderful as well.)
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Summary: Nothing pleasent about this book
Review: Looks like the author was in a rush to write something. Probably the 1st book was good and she wanted to encash on it. I kept going through this book for any thing interesting: story/expression/narration etc. Very boring. The author tries to portray a typical orthodox south India family and has failed miserably. In India there is much more to " The mango season " than this bitter pickle.
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Summary: The Mango Season-Written in poor taste
Review: Overhyped and overrated book. I would not recommend this book. It is written in absolutely poor taste. Amulya does not know anything about Brahmins or arranged marriages in India - that's what I gather from her book. It also appears that she does not understand Indian culture or American culture.
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Summary: Oh, please...
Review: Somebody give me a Rolaid! The glowing reviews of this book made me sick to my stomach...the reason I stop trusting glowing reviews to begin with! The real poop...THE MANGO SEASON is a rather unimaginative story and without tension and plot development required to make this a good book. Not a total waste of paper (at times) a line or two made me smile but not that often. I should have spent my money on Hillary's new book instead now that surely would have bought a smile or ten to this mug of mine!
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Summary: The Mango Season - great book, great recipes too!
Review: THE MANGO SEASON by Amulya Malladi
October 17, 2004
Amulya Malladi's second novel, THE MANGO SEASON, takes the reader back to India with Priya, who has a great career in Silicon Valley and lives in San Francisco with her boyfriend Nick. What her parents do not know, is the fact that Priya HAS a boyfriend, and he is not Indian. They are under the assumption that she is currently single, that she is going to eventually marry a nice Indian boy that is arranged by her parents and his parents, and will live happily ever after. Priya's mission: to return home to India to announce her engagement to her American boyfriend.
Telling her family is a lot harder than she had expected, and Priya procrastinates telling them the truth. In the meantime, she gets involved with the goings on of her family, takes part in the mango season, and finds herself getting back into every day life in India. She's been away for many years now, and realizes that she no longer feels comfortable in her homeland, but would rather be "home" in America.
She fights with her mother every day, and misses Nick with a passion.
Unfortunately for her, Priya's parents decide that she was getting too old to be single with no marriage prospects. Before she can tell them about her engagement, they arrange for her to meet a nice Indian boy from a good Indian family, to see if they will agree to marry! Things had gotten bad to worse.
For those readers who have read Malladi's first book A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, THE MANGO SEASON is quite different in tone and in setting. Her first book was about Indian people during the time of the Bhopal disaster, and how it affected one couple that lived during that time in the 1970's. THE MANGO SEASON deals with Indians who have moved to America and are living a multi-cultural existence, which goes against what their parents' generation believe. Priya has a hard time accepting that her parents will never understand her desire to marry Nick, or to have anything to do with people that are not from India. A BREATH OF FRESH AIR was serious in tone, while THE MANGO SEASON is a light comedy, but filled with enough tension to keep the reader going. It also deals with the mother-daughter relationship, which many will relate to, regardless of ethnic background.
I am recommending THE MANGO SEASON for being a fast read, filled with interesting characters and a lot of drama. It was yet another good book from Ms Malladi, and I will definitely be reading more by her.
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Summary: OVERATED & OVERPRICED
Review: The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi is an overated overpriced book. I found it boring and goofy. Why all the glowing five-star reviews? I have no idea! Save your money and check this one out of the library if you insist on reading it!!
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Summary: Modern India
Review: THE MANGO SEASON by Amulya Malladi
040119
This book takes place in modern India. It's the story of a young woman, Priya Rao, who returned to India for a visit with her family after getting her Master Degree in the USA. It's the story of her family and she, a young woman with the still love of her family and not wanting to fight or hurt them. Actually she was afraid of her family. She knew what affect in would have on her relations with them to tell them that she had a boy friend in the USA who was not an Indian. So Priya did not tell them right away. Her family immediately started trying to find her an Indian man for a husband. They did not know about her life in the USA. Priya of course did not want an India husband having a live in boy friend in the USA who she loved and initiated to marry. But, she could not work up the courage to tell her father and mother about the USA situation. She was young and had never disobeyed her father. What would she do? With the differences in the society and religion between her family in India and her boyfriend in the USA things got very difficult very fast for her. She felt the obligation to obey her father and her mother like she had been raised, but could not do it under the circumstances. All of the family was close, her grandfather and all of her sisters, brothers and in-laws were trying to find her a husband? Like a lot of countries not long ago, Indians were accustomed to having the husband picked by the bride's family, although in India the bride got a chance to talk to the lucky man and choose him as a husband before they had the marriage ceremony. Priya was lucky; she had a brother who was modern thinker, although he did not get along with the family. That gave her some one she could talk to. In the end she had to tell her mother and father the truth and let the cards fall where they would. This is a good first book and I'd advise any one who wants to know how the modern Indian family who lives in India is adjusting to the 21 century.
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