The book explores the tension between the desires of mothers who embrace traditional Indian culture, and the cousins, who embrace the new Western philosophies. Divakaruni has published another collection of poetry, Leaving Yuba City , in 1997. These poems also deal with immigrant women and their struggles to find themselves in a New World. Selections from this collection have won the Pushcart Prize and an Allen Ginsberg prize. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Women feel tug of two cultures.
Cross-cutural understanding spiced with the Indian Diaspora. Chitra Divakaruni talks about marriages and stereotypes. A short description of Divakaruni and other authors. A reader companion to all of Divakaruni's books and a short biography.