We’re all sort of aware of the multitude of mango varieties, even available at your average supermarket. “Cogshall,”“Champagne,”“Angie,”“Haden” are names we may have seen. Try “Fairchild” if you haven’t already—it’s wonderful. But not to worry if you don’t know all the mango varieties, there are only about 600. As the struggle for Indian independence intensifies, the third generation of the Dorai family begin their life journey. Daniel's son, Kannan, moves away from the family home to marry the woman he loves and make a life for himself. And this is where the story rambles a lot as it tries to incorporate too many things that do not seem relevant to what came before. Prefer? What is that? The name of your brother?" "No, "prefer" means you like one thing more than another. What’s new here, the latest literary news, plus fresh giveaways every month. Sent out just once a month, for free.

You simply must try it, it's so soft and so cheesy" "Please stop talking. You're making me queasy." Thematically, the story is more about events than ideas, and more about a specific set of characters than about the meaning of these events and characters. Ultimately there is no resolution. We know the outcome of the history in which the story is set – a true history, but what is right and what is wrong, or whether Aaron’s engagement or Daniel’s sense of family and the personal is right or not is left open. Kannan finds a kind of sense of purpose in home – almost a Panglossian tilling of his garden: “I’m here, it is the place of my heart”, and perhaps that is the ultimate theme of the book – to stay home, and become yourself, and till your own garden/grow your mangoes. In any case, Kannan’ return home is reasonably satisfying as an ending, even if the ultimate struggles of his country are to continue beyond the setting of this story. I could have forgiven some of the clunky writing and wild leaps of plot if I had cared at all about any of the characters. None of the three main characters is remotely likeable or interesting. "Unlikeable" I could forgive, but I never had the sense that the author really understood his characters' motivations, either. Stuff happens to them, and they have big revelations, but none of it is tied into anything we've been shown or understood about these characters. The bad guys are bad, bad, bad (particularly the Anglo-Indian hussy in the final section of the novel), the good guys are pretty bad too although the author seems to think they are just well-rounded, and overall, by the end I was just rooting for the tiger. Shout-Out: Blue Mangoes is a parody of Green Eggs and Ham, with its weird art style, rhyming narration, and plot of one creature insisting that another eat some weird food. Later, Alice is visiting Helen, but she's preoccupied with Truman's preconceived notion of ice cream. She storms off and phones Truman, asking if it was a joke. He proves that it's not by asking his parents and them confirming that he doesn't eat ice cream, so she asks why he won't try some. He responds that he just doesn't think he'd enjoy it, then leaves to finish his dinner.

Blue Mango

The immediate answer is that either mangos or mangoes can be correct, and you are the final judge of which to use. You might have days when you use mangos and others when you opt for mangoes. You can however consider a couple of things before you use them interchangeably.

And aside from all of this there's the Indian War of Independence as another layer, one we are told to ignore because Daniel does not like politics and hence Kannan doesn't either. Yet, the British identity conflict forms the basis of Kannan finding his place. This doesn't quite tie up. Usually when your lead characters don't care about something, you tend to not care too, so Freddie and the laddies and that goddamn Mrs.Stevenson (who ironically gets two chapters of character development when so many other characters could've used some!) don't bother you too much except as a bunch to be tolerated.When Alice is wondering if something "weird" happened to Truman, she briefly imagines him as a baby screaming because a bug came out of his ice cream.