Bharati Mukherjee
2) Jasmine
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"When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its...
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Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spun by Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism. They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippines and elsewhere to build new lives in such places as Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Manhattan and Miami. For all the troubles the immigrants endure, Mukherjee's portrayal of them as dauntless participants in the American experiment serves to empower...
4) Darkness
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English
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Twelve stories of immigrants who navigate the ancestral past of India as they remake their lives-and themselves-in North America. These are stories of fluid and broken identities, discarded languages and deities, and the attempt to create bonds with a new community against the ever-present fear of failure and betrayal.
"The narrative of immigration," Bharati Mukherjee once wrote, "is the epic narrative of this millennium." Her stories and novels...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Jilted by her boyfriend, Debby DiMartino burns down his house. Surprised by her violence, Debby seeks to learn who she really is. Born in India, she was adopted by a couple from Schenectady, New York. Debby discovers her mother was an American hippie who had an affair with an Indian serial killer, whom she subsequently denounced. Next time Debby becomes violent with a man, she knows why. By an Indian-American writer, author of The Holder of the World....
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo." --