{"id":7651,"date":"1997-03-02T10:17:44","date_gmt":"1997-03-02T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:34:39","slug":"the-middleman-and-other-stories-by-bharati-mukherjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-middleman-and-other-stories-by-bharati-mukherjee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Middleman<\/a>The acclaimed winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award<\/a>, Mukherjee’s collection features displaced, diverse Americans, from a troubled Vietnam vet to an Iraqi Jew from Queens to a wealthy immigrant Filipina. One of her stories, “Jasmine,” was expanded into a novel of the same name<\/a> and published the following year.<\/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>: 1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"MiddlemanThe acclaimed winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award<\/a>, Mukherjee’s collection features displaced, diverse Americans, from a troubled Vietnam vet to an Iraqi Jew from Queens to a wealthy immigrant Filipina. One of her stories, “Jasmine,” was expanded into a novel of the same name<\/a> and published the following year.<\/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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