Can life be too spicy? Suffering from an overload of turmeric and the complexities of growing up in an immigrant Bangladeshi family in Sydney"s west, eleven - year - old Tanveer Ahmed thinks it probably can. And so begins an unpredictable, and very entertaining, double life - sampling the delights of Aussie cuisine, joining a cricket team that gets mistaken for a terrorist group and a stint as a Bollywood - style game show host. After discovering an aversion to dead bodies as a medical student, Tanveer, quite inevitably, decides he"ll become a psychiatrist. The Exotic Rissole is an irreverent and very honest memoir. It"s about the unexpected stories that emerge when cultures clash and the mix of identities that make up a life, held together loosely with breadcrumbs and egg.