Book #95 |
Book: The Curious Secrets of Yesterday | Author: Namrata Patel | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 281 | Duration: 10/21/25 – 10/22/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, romance, India, family, culture | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Woman rejects expectation to carry on her family’s generational business. 🖌6-word review: Well-told unraveling of consequential family secrets. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “Tulsi had let it go. Stopped being persistent and began her slow walk over emotional eggshells.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: asafetida, Vedic, fenugreek, dupatta, salwar, ajwan, Ayurveda, gulab jamun, ashwagandha, rakshasi | |||
| Description:* Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop. Restless and reluctant, Tulsi yearns to follow her own path—destiny has other plans. When she finds a letter written by her grandmother, addressed and never sent, that speaks of a long-ago betrayal, she decides to unravel the mystery as a distraction. But Tulsi stumbles into much more than she bargained for. With each new discovery, she learns there’s much more to her mother and grandmother than their expertise in the remedial aromas of coriander and cloves. When an attractive neighbor begins renovating the shuttered deli next door, Tulsi finds the courage to break her routine and chase the unexpected. As she digs into the past and secrets come to light, she’s determined to heal old family wounds and find her true purpose — and maybe even love — every step of the way.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is my fourth book this year about Indian culture, and it was another good one. The others were The Direction of the Wind, Abscond: A Short Story, and The Storyteller’s Secret. Three of the four stories, including this one, were about mother-daughter relationships and generational secrets. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
