Literature is often – always? – about change: changing ideas, feelings, relationships, situations. And often such changes are brought about through a change in location. Commonly characters in novels move from one place to another in the course of the story: for example, Caithleen and Baba in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls or Eilis in Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn. In both these examples, the characters’ physical journey from provincial Ireland to big cities (Dublin in The Country Girls, New York in Brooklyn) mirrors a personal journey from naivety to experience. Continue reading “Food and change”