After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

The author of Brothers and Sisters recounts her relationship with her father, one that took place largely during the summer when they vacationed together, discussing how this shaped her as an adult and as a woman. Reprint.

The twelve essays that form this book, first published in 1993, interpret Bharati Mukherjee’s oeuvre from a variety of critical perspectives.

These unpublished letters between the esteemed teacher and literary critic, Adaline Glasheen, and the great American writer, Thornton Wilder, were written over a twenty-five year period, from 1950 to 1975.

This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books ...

... Bharati Mukherjee . Twayne / Prentice Hall International , 1996. 164p bibl index afp ( Twayne's United States authors series , 653 ) ISBN 0-8057-3997-1 , $ 23.95 Mukherjee at present enjoys the celebrity of an " in " author , but it ...

... Bharati Ray and Aparna Basu ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 ) , 36 ; Sharit K. Bhowmik ... Mukherjee to Ghai , 22.7.83 , RL 33-3-100 , Jacket 1 . 132. Margaret Owens to Loutfi , 14 June 1984 , 302 Notes.

Hailed as Gloria Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novel, it is the kind of book that stays with you long after the final page (Providence Journal).