Blurb
&quto;Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ear ... and foretold my widowhood and exile," relates Jyoti, fifth cursed daughter in a family of nine. Though she can't escape fate, Jyoti reinvents herself time and again. She leaves her dusty Punjabi village to marry as Jasmine; travels rough, hidden airways and waters to America to reemerge as Jase, an illegal "day mummy" in hip Manhattan; and lands beached in Iowa's farmlands as Jane, mother to an adopted teenage Vietnamese refugee and "wife" to a banker. Bharati Mukherjee (The Middleman and Other Stories) makes each world exotic, her lyrical prose broken only by the violence Jasmine almost casually recounts and survives.
First Published
1989
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I love this book. I first heard of this book while watching a documentary about books and writing, when a part of the documentary quoted this book. I thought to myself to that it sounded really interesting and I decided to look it up and read it. And how happy I was. The book is about a young woman named Jasmine who is forced to move to America after a terrible accident in her home country India means it is impossible for her stay there. The book follows her journey into America and her expirences there, the people she meets and the cultural clashes that she expirences. I genuinely love this book, it is one a my favourite books and would highly recommend it. The only thing that might be an issue is the ending as it does not resolve much, but I can overlook it. Nevertheless Jasmine is a great read, as well as all of Mukherjee's other books which I have also loved.
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