Word: mukherjeeã
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Pull back the saris on the cover of Bharati Mukherjee??s Desirable Daughters and enter an unknown world. The book is packaged like so many other novels by Indian and Indian-American authors. It masquerades as another example of literary “chutneyfication,” an unthreatening dose of the exotic for the American reading palate. But this Berkeley professor’s latest novel is anything but a typical tale of immigration. Only its costume evokes the popular success of that genre...