Book Title: Tell My Mother I Like Boys
Author: Suvir Saran
Publisher: Viking
Number of Pages: 240
ISBN: 0143478362
Date Published: Dec. 15, 2025
Price: INR 445.11
Book Review
In “Tell My Mother I Like Boys“, Suvir Saran lays aside the authority of the chef’s coat and writes with disarming simplicity about his life. The memoir moves beyond professional milestones and instead focuses on the quiet struggles that shaped him. Rather than celebrating fame, he turns inward, examining what it means to grow up different, to hide parts of yourself, and to slowly gather the courage to speak.
The early chapters linger on his childhood in Delhi, where family rituals, faith, and memory shaped his sense of belonging. Yet beneath that warmth ran a current of fear. Saran reflects on the pressure of silence—the cost of pretending. His coming out is not framed as a dramatic turning point, but as a gradual, deeply human process. The tenderness in his writing, especially when speaking of his mother, gives the book its emotional depth.
Food, unsurprisingly, becomes both metaphor and refuge. The kitchen is not only a workplace but a space of survival and self-expression. He writes about cooking the way others might write about prayer—with care, patience, and reverence. Even moments of professional triumph are shaded with loneliness, reminding readers that success does not erase inner conflict.
What stays with you after finishing the book is its sincerity. There is no attempt to polish pain into perfection. Instead, Saran offers a story that feels lived-in and honest. It is a memoir about longing—for love, for acceptance, for home—and about the quiet strength it takes to finally live without disguise.
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