A Conversation with Chef Farhana

This article was published in the July 2017 issue of the Irish American News under the “Guilty Pleasures” column. Whenever I return to Belfast, I make a point to eat dinner at one of the Indian restaurants in town – Bengal Brasserie, The Jharna, Mumbai 27. My favorite parts of those meals are the incredibly…

Inspiration

As November novel writing month approaches, I think about sources of inspiration to get me started and to keep me going. Carol Christ (1980) wrote: “Women’s stories have not been told. And without stories there is no articulation of experience. Without stories a woman is lost when she comes to make the important decisions of…