Mangoes on the Maple Tree

What I found most enjoyable about this novel is that it steers clear of stereotypes about Indian immigrant families. The Bhaves and the Moghes are refreshingly different from some families that inhabit the world of diasporic fiction. There are no daughters being threatened with arranged marriages, no authoritarian parents, and no weepy sentimentality about the land left behind.-(Nalini Iyer, on SAWNET Book Pages)"This is the story of two families that not only dive deep into dangerous waters, but surface and live to tell the tale."-(Michelle Reale in Rain Taxi Online)"A hymn to the joys and sorrows of family, in the best, most inclusive sense of the word." Andreas Schroeder

Uma Parameswaran was born in India and has lived in Canada since 1966. Her earlier books include Trishanku (poems), Sons Must Die and Other Plays, award-winning What was Always Hers, The Sweet Smell of Mother?s Milk-Wet Bodice, Sisters at the Well (poems), and Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other Stories.She is Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is married to a mathematician and they have a married daughter.