A review by gregoreads
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

3.0

Not sure if Fasting, Feasting is a 2 or a 3 stars for me. I didn’t really enjoy but I didn’t hate reading it. Being driven by its themes more than anything else, it isn’t really my kind of book; the plot is nonexistent and the characters aren’t really memorable aside from some random things which happen to them externally. Having read it for my Food and Writing class, I had an eye out for all that food represented, and I must say I appreciated those moments more than any others. Overall this book felt weightless to me, unsure of where it was going with all of its tense changes and flashbacks, and didn’t make as much of an impression on me as some of the previous readings I’ve done for this class.