Chickpeas to Cook and Other Stories Dance dwells in the vast fortress

dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North

As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration

are used to illustrate the physically and mentally harmful effects of depression and the road to recovering well

Anne Toole

Once a vigilante

Chickpeas to Cook and Other Stories Dance dwells in the vast fortressStories about women of Singapore, exiles and dreamers, lovers and seekers of the path Chickpeas to Cook is the story of the woman of the tribe, women from some of the smallest of communities, often no more than a few hundred families in Singapore. How do these women live, think, even breathe? What does the Dawoodi Bohra woman answer, for instance, when she's asked if her daughter will don the ridah after marriage? When does the Sikh woman decide it's