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\"Jasmine\"<\/a>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\u2019s wife and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.<\/p>\n

The novel began as a short story of the same name in Mukherjee’s acclaimed 1988\u00a0National Book Critics Circle Award<\/a>-winning short story collection, The Middleman and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Published<\/strong>: 1989<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Jasmine\"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\u2019s wife and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.<\/p>\n

The novel began as a short story of the same name in Mukherjee’s acclaimed National Book Critics Circle Award<\/a>-winning short story collection, The Middleman and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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