{"id":6315,"date":"2001-06-01T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2001-06-01T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:53","slug":"the-unknown-errors-of-our-lives-by-chirtra-banerjee-divakaruni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-unknown-errors-of-our-lives-by-chirtra-banerjee-divakaruni\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unknown<\/a>Thank goodness for reliable standbys: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni<\/a>‘s latest is a wonderful short story collection that deals poignantly, patiently, remarkably with the ten\u00adsions 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 fianc\u00e9’s past indis\u00adcretion, which literally lands on her front door just before her wedding.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Bolo! Bolo! Tell Me! South Asian writers move into the literary spotlight,” a<\/strong>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, June\/July 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"UnknownThank goodness for reliable standbys: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni<\/a>‘s latest is a wonderful short story collection that deals poignantly, patiently, remarkably with the ten\u00adsions 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 fianc\u00e9’s past indis\u00adcretion, which literally lands on her front door just before her wedding.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Bolo! Bolo! Tell Me! South Asian writers move into the literary spotlight,” a<\/strong>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, June\/July 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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