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...Your new work may have been likened to Bharati Mukherjee's work--the female protagonist from the subcontinent who comes to the U.S. and confronts issues of her sexuality and freedom...
...long ago, I was giving Bharati Mukherjee, a writer from India who now lives in Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers...
...Bharati Mukherjee...
...Bharati Mukherjee has caught that something, and she portrays an America that actually exists, that exists now. Jasmine is the story of an Indian girl who emigrates to America, shedding selves as she moves to, and through, this country, eventually realizing herself as genuinely American. It's a book about disintegration and change, constant rebirth in the midst of bewildering opportunity: she is Jyoti, then Jasmine and later, in Iowa, Jane Ripplemeyer, though even this is not an endpoint...
...Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine proves that America is still full of new territory, and that lighting out for it, into the unknown, into danger, into hope, will always make us Americans...