Age: 52. Residence: San Diego, California. Book: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, (University of Iowa Press, April 2022), a food memoir and personal narrative that addresses the question of what it means to belong to one’s country of birth as well as an adopted one, as seen through the lens of the author’s life as a woman of color in science as well as an immigrant daughter of refugees who left an abusive marriage, and braided with the lives of chefs, home cooks, and food-stall owners. Dana Newman. Susan Hill Newton.
