Before becoming a writer, Razak was a pastry chef and cake shop owner, and India’s culinary riches flavour her prose just so. Dilchain the cook, for instance – a woman who carries her own trauma and keeps a jar filled with unrequited love – spoils the family with kulfi and jelabis. “Knead until your face is pink and hot,” she tells Alma, teaching her to make paratha dough. “When you can’t breathe, then you know it’s ready.” Moths, like all insects, provide vital ecological services, including as food sources for other organisms. Their predators include birds, mammals and spiders. Alma was still very much a young girl who dont understand things, she is stubborn, naive, love to spin eery wild tales of djinns and monsters, her passionate love for her family, also very immature in many things. Yet, as she was forced apart, she learned that she need to care for herself independently, she need to do anything to survive. The family, Bappu a estimated professor and the head of the family was a good man who cared so much about his family and Ma, the mother who fought against any traditional beliefs that women could not be other than housewife. She was a learned woman, become a professor and had forward thinking that gets her scrutinized for. Roop, the youngest at 6 had the characteristic of psychopath in making for her obsession with death, torturing animals, they are very hard to read through for me, it felt quite absurd and uncomfortable. They are also important pollinators. Alessandro says, 'Moths pollinate a wide variety of plants, including wildflowers and some crops, as they search for nectar.' What do moths eat?

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Summary: I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a great visual and explanation of natural selection and how animals adapt to their environment. I really enjoyed the illustrations in this book and how it helped readers grasp the concept of adaptation. The first collection from celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from their extensive archive. Both live with Daddee Ma – Bappu’s mother – now a bitter and bigoted old woman after the loss of her husband and many babies. Story tellers range from Darryl of Run DMC, to acclaimed reporter, one of 2005 Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, Malcolm Gladwell. We hear from an airline stewardess, a man who worked a record-setting four years as a volunteer for a suicide hot-line, and the one that I've retold the most: a dad, desperately trying to communicate with his teen-aged son and grossly misunderstanding, therefore constantly misusing, "LOL".Alessandro says, 'More than 90% of moth caterpillars are vegetarian, eating leaves, roots, seeds and fruits.

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Alessandro Giusti, Lepidoptera Curator at the Museum, explains that brilliantly coloured moths are often day-flying species or those keen to display their distastefulness to predators.That being said, I appreciated Razak’s commentary on religion, nationalism, colonialism, fascism, feminism, classism, etc. As I now understand, this period, the Partition Era, and India's Independence were wrought with political and social upheaval. To Razak’s credit, I felt that with her debut novel she attempted to speak on the multiplicity of issues that were occurring during this period, through the experience of this fictional family. I believe this story was meant to elicit relatability and emotionality to the circumstances via a domestic setting.