A gift from my husband for Valentine's Day (he knows me well!), I thoroughly enjoyed this series of travel essays set all over India. The writers, settings, geography, and topics were all wildly different. India is a dazzlingly varied country, in terms of everything--food, language, culture, tradition, religion, etc. These essays really ran the gamut of all these different areas. I wish I could even begin to describe them and do them justice. Let's see, there was an essay on chai (an entire essay about just chai! And it was interesting!), on food, on eunuchs, on weddings, on the Buddha, on truck drivers, on cycling across India, on the difficulties of traveling in India as a westerner, etc. etc. etc. I'm only scratching the surface.

For anyone with any interest in India, this is a winner.