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Indlæser... The Settlers Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Foodaf Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
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In the rest of the book, YAB interweaves the story of the Ugandan Asians with her own memories, growing up in the early 1950s under the British Empire, getting into miniskirts and rebellion in the 1960s (while the community does well in the early years of independence), and then the growing intolerance and hardships of Idi Amin's era followed by transportation to an intermittently-welcoming UK. Scattered through the narrative are recipes, for each item of food that she mentions in her memories.
All this should be very interesting, and it often is. The problem is that it reads a bit like a first draft, or as if someone was sitting there telling you their life story: there are abrupt leaps in the subject matter, lurches in tone from spiky to lyrical, florid description to mile-a-minute honesty about very private details including the break-up of YAB's first marriage or her postnatal depression.
In a way, I think this is extremely real: both in the sense that in our own lives, our attention is often elsewhere during what turn out to be important moments, and in the sense that you feel this is YAB's authentic voice, proudly outspoken, with her intelligence leading her to jump to a new subject before you have quite figured out what she is saying. But reading it was sometimes disconcerting.
Recommended for: readers interested in how one person actually experienced the process of migration, or in the story of the Ugandan Asian community. ( )