World Literature Today, October 1st, 2003
Bharati Mukherjee. Desirable Daughters New York. Hyperion. 2002. 310 pages. $13.95. ISBN 0-7868-8515-7
IN DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS, Bharati Mukherjee sets herself a dual task: she wants to tell her Indian readers about Indian expatriates in America and her American readers about weird customs and traditions of Indian society. It is a difficult undertaking, and Tara, the novel's narrator admits as much. "It is one of those San Francisco things I can't begin to explain in India," she says, "just like I can't explain my Indian life to the women I know in California. I have told my Calcutta stories ...
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