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Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family / Rabia Chaudry.

Chaudry, Rabia, (author.).

Summary:

"A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643750385 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 342 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Doodh, dhai, makhan : milk, yogurt, butter -- Pakoray, shakory -- Artay ki bori : a sack of flour -- Jal bin machli : a fish out of water -- Daal may kuch kala : something black in the daal -- Kabab may haddi : a bone in the kabab -- Ghaans phoos : rabbit food -- Gosht khor : meat eaters -- Chawal ki bori : a sack of rice -- Gur naal ishq mithaa : a love sweeter than jaggery -- Epilogue: Goal weight.
Subject: Chaudry, Rabia.
Body image > United States > Psychological aspects.
Overweight persons > United States > Social conditions.
Pakistani American women > Biography.
Pakistani Americans > Biography.
Pakistani Americans > Food.
Pakistani Americans > Social life and customs.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, advocate, podcaster, and executive producer of the four-part HBO documentary, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which was based on her New York Times bestselling book, Adnan's Story. Chaudry is also co-producer and co-host of three podcasts, Undisclosed (360 million downloads), The 45th (four million downloads) and the new The Hidden Djinn. A 2021 Aspen Institute/ADL Civil Society Fellow and a 2016 Aspen Ideas Scholar, she serves on the Vanguard Board at the Aspen Institute. She is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project, a Fellow of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, a Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and a founding board member of the Inter-Jewish Muslim Alliance and the Muslim Jewish Advisory Council, both of which focus on building Muslim-Jewish coalitions around pressing policy issues and educating across communities to break barriers. 


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