Bharati Mukherjee
1) Jasmine
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Anjali Bose sets off to Bangalore and quickly falls in with an ambitious crowd of young people, who have learned how to sound American by watching shows like "Seinfeld" in order to get jobs as call-center service agents. In this high-tech city, Anjali is able to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
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