Mangoes on the Maple Tree

by Uma Parameswaran

This is a story where the actual threat of a flood is both backdrop and metaphor for the figurative floods that threaten a family.


"What I found most enjoyable about this novel is that it steers clear of stereotypes about Indian immigrant families. The Bhaves and the Moghes are refreshingly different from some families that inhabit the world of diasporic fiction. There are no daughters being threatened with arranged marriages, no authoritarian parents, and no weepy sentimentality about the land left behind."

-Nalini Iyer, on SAWNET Book Pages

"This is the story of two families that not only dive deep into dangerous waters, but surface and live to tell the tale."

-Michelle Reale in Rain Taxi Online

"A hymn to the joys and sorrows of family, in the best, most inclusive sense of the word."

-Andreas Schroeder

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Uma Parameswaran is a retired professor of English, University of Winnipeg; has published extensively in the field of postcolonial literatures; and is the author of several works of fiction, poetry and drama, including the award-winning collection, What was Always Hers, and a recent novel, A Cycle of the Moon.