Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American
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...