
Tiny Moons
Nina Mingya Powles, Emma Wright
£9.99
Mr B's review
Part kitchen notebook, part travel journal, part diary, Tiny Moons is truly a treat: a bite-sized memoir exploring questions of heritage and identity, longing and belonging. Alone in Shanghai, Powles ruminates on childhood comfort foods and family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, all rendered in mouthwatering detail: sticky, savoury buns and sizzling ginger, sweet banana fritters and perfectly ripe fruit. The food is the focus, but Powles’s lyrical musings on family, culture, and the search for community are what I savoured. I dare you not to devour Tiny Moons in one sitting! – Liv
Description
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage.
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