A review by ninkadp
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar

my bf and i met a guy at a bar recently, through a friend of a friend of a friend, and after talking for a while he decided we were going to be best friends. he invited us to see his (new, unfurnished) apartment and loaned us this book out of one of his boxes. we hung out with him a second time a few weeks ago, and it was fine--not exactly underwhelming, but not as great as it was in some parallel universe. reading this book was kind of like meeting this guy. it was exciting at first, because there was so much for me to like right off the bat; but then it settled into a normal "ok, this is a book" by the end of the first story.