Jasmine
By: Bharati Mukherjee.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: East Indian Americans -- Fiction.; Women -- Florida -- Fiction.; Women -- Iowa -- Fiction.; Florida -- Fiction.; Iowa -- Fiction.
Description: "When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives."--Page 4 of cover.