num_pages: 241
description: When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .
language: English
title: Jasmine
titlecomplete: Jasmine
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, School, India, Literature, Read For School, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3654
places: India, Iowa
publisher: Virago