Feast of Peas
Sheth, Kashmira / Ebbeler, Jeffrey A vibrant and deliciously amusing suspenseful story set in India about food and gardening, anticipation, and generosity.Every morning, Jiva works in his garden until the sun turns as red as a bride's sari. Observed by his friend Ruvji, Jiva plants peas and beans, potatoes and tomatoes, eggplants and okra in his vegetable patch, and anticipates a delicious meal of "plump peas, sweet peas, lined-up-in-the-shell peas." But each time Jiva is ready...