Food plays a starring role in Russian émigré’s new short story collection
REVIEWED BY ALISON SHER
Lara Vapnyar writes about what she knows. She emigrated from Russia to Brooklyn in 1994. Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love is her third book about Russian immigrants living in New York City.
Vapnyar writes with depth and a poignant understanding of the Russian-American psyche — and in Broccoli, a deep affection for Eastern European food. In six chapters, the story collection takes you into their lives and slowly reveals the bittersweet reality of their quests for love in a new homeland.
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