The Rice Mother Rani Manicka
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

I am going to pick up reading ' The Rice Mother' by Rani Manicka. This frustrated my Mom since everyone else loved her Indian sweets. There are fewer women at the top because they have a different work/life balance than men, it is claimed. One of the key scapegoats of the right-wing outrage machine in the wake of last month's assault in Benghazi has been UN Ambassador Susan Rice. The experiments by the Rice University/Texas Children's Hospital lab of bioengineer Jeff Jacot contributed to research in repairing newborns' heart tissues with stem cells from the mother's amniotic fluid. More than this, rice is truly respected and even revered. Colorado's wildfire season ignited all at once this week, causing evacuations and stretching the state's firefighting capability to its limits. There were a selective few I did like- which included Zarda. "The Rice Mother", Rani Manicka's fabulous debut novel was one of my favorite novels for many years and still is, and so,it was with great excitement and expectation that I picked her third novel, "The Japanese Lover". Mothers' careers progress slowly because they are mothers — because they have to spend more time on their children. Thais even greet one another saying “Tan khao ru yang ka” – “Have you eaten rice yet?” Did you know there is a goddess of rice? Although there is no heirloom cookware (my mother didn't cook, period) in our inheritance, there are stuff like this microwave rice cooker which was still inside its original box. The Castellija School in California, devoted to the excellence of education for women includes Rani Manicka's The Rice Mother as part of its new course syllabus (2009-2010) for Asian literature.