Review of Maroon Stranger, “Lentils for Breakfast,” Luna Station Quarterly 62 (June 2025): 113-125 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
This charming story, of a girl growing up and spreading her wings at the most important institution in the country for her particular brand of magic, starting off such a feel-good story that I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it never did!
Not that there wasn’t anything that went wrong, that Deepika didn’t face any challenges or that everything was sweet (in fact, quite the opposite), but Stranger addresses the racism that Deepika faces head on, and gives Deepika a way out. A truly magical little story.
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