This Beautiful, Ridiculous City

THIS IS NOT ANOTHER ODE TO NEW YORKA blend of cultural meditation and self-care manifesto with a sprinkling of recipe, this is the memoir of a woman as complex as the city itselfOn her first night in New York, Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of John F. Kennedy Airport making an inventory of all she left behind in India. She realises two things: that she is no longer a girl craving the America imported in cheesy sitcoms and fast foods, and that trauma has left gaping holes her memory.Here, at last, exploring the haunts and hideouts of her literary heroes - Kerouac, Plath, Bechdel - and rediscovering her love of cooking, Kay has room to begin the work of piecing herself together. But as her story becomes a window onto a mystifying city growing increasingly inhospitable to millions, Kay embarks on an electric exploration of what it means to forge a life of one's own now.This is not another ode to New York. A blend of cultural meditation and self-care manifesto with a sprinkling of recipe, this is the memoir of a woman as complex as the city itself - an artist, a foodie, an immigrant. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is about how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love, how the places and people we love do not always love us back but somehow still save us in weird, unexpected ways.