![]() ![]() However, this power comes with a price (it always does). Tilo’s training allows her to pick out the right spices for different people’s situations. Along with a handful of other girls, Tilo undertakes a transformative journey that places her in present-day San Francisco, where she is the eponymous Mistress of a spice shop primarily serving Indian immigrants and their descendants. Born in India, unusual from the start, she eventually finds herself on an island where the Old One teaches her the mysteries of spices. Tilo is a young woman with an old woman’s body. Yet the execution of the story itself, and the characters, left much to be desired. I loved a lot of the ideas in this book, and the meditative way in which CBD punctuates the narrative with beats on each spice. ![]() The difficult relationship between power, responsibility, and humility is on full display in The Mistress of Spices, where Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s empathetic and passionate writing merges with magical realism. ![]()
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