![]() ![]() I also could relate to both Alia who is wanting to break free from the small town of her childhood, but also Alia’s mother, played with complexity by Manisha Koirala, who is looking back at her own dreams that she deferred to make a better life for her children. I found the movie both touching and funny. As she finds romance with a local shop keeper’s son (their store provides the title of the movie), she discovers some buried family secrets from the past and present. The movie is broken up in to chapters following different lavish parties being held in her family’s social circle. India Sweets and Spices is about Alia, played charmingly by Sophia Ali, an UCLA student, who returns home from school to her Indian family in a wealthy NJ community and finds herself at odds with her parents and her Aunties’ visions of her future. ![]() ![]() Click on the links to learn more about AAPI Heritage Month and the Hoboken Library’s events celebrating it. The family table can be both a source of connection and a source of drama here are two picks that prove that point which are representative as we recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. ![]()
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