Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love

About the Author

Lara Vapnyar is the author of the novel Memoirs of a Muse and a book of short stories, There Are Jews in My House, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was the winner of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2004 Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Vapnyar, whose work has appeared in Open City, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, emigrated from Russia in 1994. She lives on Staten Island with her husband and two children.