Jasmine [Paperback]

ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OFTIME S 30 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOURE 30

Mukherjee gives us the gift of being allowed to see ourselves in all our inconsistencies . . . To build our hearts so they might always reflect, like Jasmine, what it means to carry what is fraught and scared and dismissive and hopeful and wild inside us, and choose love. Mira Jacob, from the new introduction

When Jasmine was first published theNew York Timescalled it one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American. Thirty years later,Jasminehas only grown in its significance. Following one woman through her numerous identities  from Jyoti in a small village in Punjab, to Jasmine in Jalandhar, to Jase in Manhattan, to Jane in Iowa  Mukherjee gives us an iconic character whose journey through shifting landscapes necessitates her shifting selves. What she encounters on this path, from India to America and from girlhood to womanhood, shows the beauty and darkness and revelation inherent in the journeys of all those who not only want to survive, but to grow.

With a new introduction by Mira Jacob for this thirtieth-anniversary edition,Jasmineis a masterful examination of identity, immigration, and sexuality from the Matriarch of Indian-American literature. (Literary Hub)

BHARATI MUKHERJEE(1940-2017) is the author of over a dozen novels, short-story collections, and works of nonfiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle award for her collectionThe Middleman and Other Stories.This reprint of the classic novel from Bharati Mukherjee celebrates the 30th Anniversary of its publication with a new introduction from bestselling author Mira Jacob (Good Talk, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing).

Her prose fiction is masterful, giving us a perspective on a singular life imagined with impeccable care and judgment. lÃa