When Nining gets a job as a maid with her neighbours, she finally has access to the ingredients that will allow her to test her culinary skill – to delishusize, as she puts it.Įach chapter focuses on a different recipe, and they do indeed all sound absolutely delicious. She and her siblings are always desperately hungry, and so of course food is always on their minds. Nining is the oldest of six children in a poverty-stricken family, who suffers brutal physical abuse at the hands of her mother whom she both fears and loves. Banana Heart Summer is both the story of young girl growing up in extremely difficult circumstances, and a love letter to Filipino food, and somehow the mixture works.
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