SOURCE: "Call It Exile, Call It Immigration," in The New York Times Book Review, September 10, 1989, p. 9.
In the following review, Gorra discusses Mukherjee's expansion of her short story "Jasmine" into a novel and asserts "she's done so without losing a short story's virtues, above all its sense of speed and compression, its sense of a life distilled into its essence."
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