Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

by Rabia Chaudry

I wanted gulab jamun, kalakand, jalebi, kheer, gajar halwa, falooda, ras gulla. I wanted mithai, the confections my mother swore drove her own father into an early grave. I wanted them injected directly into my bloodstream. I couldn’t get enough.