02 Mar / Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
Born Jyoti, meaning “light,” in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa where she becomes Mrs. Jane Ripplemeyer, assumed to be a pregnant banker’s wife and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.
The novel began as a short story of the same name in Mukherjee’s acclaimed 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning short story collection, The Middleman and Other Stories.
Review: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997
Readers: Adult
Published: 1989