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Thank goodness for reliable standbys: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‘s latest is a wonderful short story collection that deals poignantly, patiently, remarkably with the ten­sions between old world and new. The collection opens with “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter,” about an Indian woman who has come to the U.S. to live with her son and daughter-in-law, and who is trying to figure out how to tell her best friend at home about her new life without letting her know how out-of-place and lonely she feels. In the title story, “The Unknown Errors of Our Lives,” a young woman struggles to come to terms with her fiancé’s past indis­cretion, which literally lands on her front door just before her wedding.

Review: “Bolo! Bolo! Tell Me! South Asian writers move into the literary spotlight,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, June/July 2001

Readers: Adult

Published: 2001