21. Bold Type: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni In this issue of Bold Type, chitra divakaruni shares an essay aboutthe love that binds women, in literature and in the real world. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0199/divakaruni/

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day on which the two girls were bornthe same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged. In this issue of Bold Type, Chitra Divakaruni shares an essay about the love that binds women, in literature and in the real world. You can hear her read a passage from Sister of My Heart, and read excerpts of her poetry and prose from previous issues of Bold Type. Send us comments

22. Booklist--Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. The Unknown Errors Of Our Lives. How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine divakaruni, chitra banerjee. The UnknownErrors of Our Lives. Apr. 2001. 288p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0385-49727-X). http://www.ala.org/booklist/v97/adult/mr1/02divakaruni.html

Booklist Adult v.97 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Christian Fiction Mystery Romance ... Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. The Unknown Errors of Our Lives. Apr. 2001. 288p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-49727-X). Divakaruni’s narrative elegance serves not to reduce the emotional impact of her fiction but rather to concentrate and intensify it. After two enormously successful novels, including the splendid Sister of My Heart (1998), she returns to the short-story form with which she had such success in Arranged Marriages abhimaan , which describes a “mix of love and anger and hurt.” This is the very turmoil Divakaruni captures so indelibly in stories about doting Indian grandparents and skittish American grandchildren, a young mother unsure about whether she can forgive her father for abandoning her and her mother, and a young Indian American woman who travels to India after a suicide attempt to try and recalibrate her life. These hauntingly beautiful stories of epiphany and catharsis place Divakaruni in the vanguard of fine literary writers who touch a broad spectrum of readers. — Donna Seaman (Booklist/March 1, 2001)

23. Booklist: Nonfiction--Poetry (v.93) How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine. Poetry. divakaruni, chitra banerjee. LeavingYuba City. divakaruni, chitra banerjee. Leaving Yuba City. Aug. 1997. 128p. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v93/25.html

Booklist Adult Archive v.93 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... Booklist Index How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Poetry Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Leaving Yuba City. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Far Rockaway of the Heart. Giovanni, Nikki. Love Poems. Graham, Jorie. The Errancy. Hass, Robert. Sun under Wood. Homer. The Odyssey. Kizer, Carolyn. Harping On. Mekas, Jonas. There Is No Ithaca. Merrill, Nan C. Psalms for Praying. Neruda, Pablo. Ceremonial Songs. Oliver, Mary. West Wind. Piercy, Marge. What Are Big Girls Made Of? The Psalms in English. Sanchez, Sonia. Does Your House Have Lions? Slavitt, David R. Epic and Epigram. Slavitt, David R. Sixty-one Psalms of David. Willard, Nancy. Swimming Lessons. Walcott, Derek. The Bounty. Williams, C. K. The Vigil. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Leaving Yuba City. Aug. 1997. 128p. Doubleday/Anchor, paper, $12.95 (0-385-48854-8). DDC: 811. Everything Divakaruni touches with her exquisitely sensitive writer's mindwhether it's a memory, or a scene between wife and husbandturns to gold. She demonstrated her mastery of the short story in Arranged Marriages (1995), and of the novel in

24. HoustonChronicle.com - 'The Vine Of Desire' By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Feb. 22, 2002, 342PM. The Vine of Desire A Novel By chitra banerjee divakaruni.Doubleday. Excerpted from The Vine of Desire by chitra banerjee divakaruni. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/ch1/1267787

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: Chapter One excerpts Current stories in Chapter One excerpts: 'The Autograph Man' by Zadie Smith 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan 'The Commissariat of Enlightenment' by Ken Kalfus 'Soul Circus' by George P. Pelecanos ... Printer-friendly format Feb. 22, 2002, 3:42PM The Vine of Desire A Novel By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Doubleday ISBN: 0-385-49729-6 Chapter One The day Sudha stepped off the plane from India into Anju's arms, leaving a ruined marriage behind, their lives changed forever. And not just Sudha's and Anju's. Sunil's life changed, too. And baby Dayita's. Like invisible sound waves that ripple out and out, the changes reached all the way to India, to Ashok waiting on his balcony for the wind to turn. To their mothers in the neat squareness of their flat, upsetting the balance of their household, causing the mango pickles to turn too-sour and the guava tree in the backyard to grow extra-large pink guavas. The changes multiplied the way vines might in a magical tale, their tendrils reaching for people whose names Sudha and Anju did not even know yet. Were the changes good or bad?

25. HoustonChronicle.com - 'The Vine Of Desire' By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rapture' by Susan Minot; 'The Vine of Desire' by chitra banerjee divakaruni;'Selling Ben Cheever' by Benjamin Cheever; By chitra banerjee divakaruni. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/reviews/1264359

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: Book reviews Current stories in Book reviews: 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan 'What About the Kids' by Judith S. Wallerstein Watkins' perspective makes Enron book stand out 'The Commissariat of Enlightenment' by Ken Kalfus ... Printer-friendly format Feb. 22, 2002, 11:56AM 'The accident of America' Divakaruni novel brings Indian women to United States By BARBARA LISS THE VINE OF DESIRE. By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Doubleday, $23.95. LET me tell you who I used to be before the accident of America happened to me," says Anju, speaking to her unborn son in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's incandescent novel The Vine of Desire Fans of Divakaruni who already know Anju and her beautiful cousin Sudha from their girlhood days in India in Sister of My Heart will be happy to give Anju her say here, for much was left unresolved in that earlier novel. While it isn't necessary to know what occurred "before the accident of America," knowing enriches the pleasures of this one.

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Home Genres Titles Authors ... Media March 24, 2003 Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni  Publisher: Doubleday Published: Jan 2000 (Paperback 322 pages) Published: Jan 1999 (Hardcover 322 pages) More Novels More Women (selected titles of particular interest) BookBrowse.com Links Read the reviews Write Your Own Review Excerpt Reading Guide ... More by Divakaruni  Buy Books AddAll.com: Compare prices at 40+ stores Palm.com: Buy eBooks Buy at BN.com Buy at Amazon.com From the Book Jacket: Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were bornthe same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged. When Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is threatened. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrustSudha, because she feels a new shame that she cannot share with Anju; and Anju, because she discovers the seductive power of her sister's beauty, a power Sudha herself is incapable of controlling. When, due to a change in family fortune, the girls are urged into arranged marriages, their lives take opposite turns. One travels to America, and one remains in India; both have lives of secrets. When tragedy strikes both of them, however, they discover that, despite distance and marriage, they must turn to each other once again.

28. Sister Of My Heart By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Read Review Read a review of Sister of My Heart by chitra banerjee divakaruni at MostlyFiction.com. anthologies.Profile of chitra banerjee divakaruni. http://mostlyfiction.com/world/divakaruni.htm

BUY ART PRINTS Umbria (w Foil) P.G. Gravele Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed Mounted ... Around the World This Book Next Book All Authors All Books Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Bibliography Book Marks Author Info "Sister of My Heart" "The Bidhata Purush is tall and has a long, spun-silk beard like the astrologer my mother visits each month to find out what the planets have in store for her. He is dressed in a robe made of the finest white cotton, his fingers drip light, and his feet do not touch the ground as he glides toward us. When he bends over our cradle, his face is so blinding-bright I cannot tell his expression. With the first finger of his right hand he marks our foreheads. It is a tingly feeling, as when Pishi rubs tiger-balm on our temples. I think I know what he writes for Anju. You will be brave and clever, you will fight injustice, you will not give in. You will marry a fine man and travel the world and have many sons. You will be happy. It is more difficult to imagine what he writes for me. Perhaps he writes beauty, for though I myself do not think so, people say I am beautiful - even more than my mother was in the first years of her marriage. Perhaps he writes goodness, for though I am not as obedient as my mother would like, I try hard to be good. There is a third word he writes, the harsh angles of which sting like fire, making me wail, making Pishi sit up, rubbing her eyes. But the Bidhata Purush is gone already, and all she sees is a swirl - cloud or sifted dust - outside the window, a fading glimmer, like fireflies.

29. LESELUST Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Bengalische Sterne *** Literatur Aus Indie chitra banerjee divakaruni - BengalischeSterne Erzählungen. Diana Verlag, 270 Seiten, ISBN 3828400566 Ersch. http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/divakaruni_chitra_sterne.htm

LESELUST eigene Meinung schreiben Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Bengalische Sterne Erzählungen. Diana Verlag, 270 Seiten, ISBN: 3828400566 Ersch. 2001 unter dem Titel "The Unknown Errors of Our Lifes" Aus dem Amerikanischen von Angelika Naujokat Die Autorin: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wurde in Indien geboren und lebt heute mit ihrer Familie in den USA; für ihren ersten Band mit Erzählungen (Der Duft der Mangoblüten) erhielt die Berkeley-Absolventin und Dozentin für Creative Writing neben anderen Auszeichnungen den "American Book Award". Weitere Titel: Der Duft der Mangoblüten / Die Prinzessin im Schlangenpalast / Die Hüterin der Gewürze / Bengalische Sterne Wer die Sehnsucht kennt In einer anderen Geschichte ist die Mutter nach dem Tod ihres Mannes zu ihrem einzigen Sohn und dessen Familie nach Amerika gekommen. Bist du glücklich? fragt ihre älteste Freundin sie in ihren Briefen. Glück - was ist Glück? Ich weiß es nicht mehr, wird sie ihr zum Ende der Geschichte antworten. Denn hier in Amerika ist nichts von dem, was sie ihr Leben lang gemacht hat, mehr richtig. Die Enkel sind ganz anders erzogen, sind nicht mehr zur Achtung der Älteren angehalten, und lieben sie auch nicht so, wie sie es sich erhofft hatte. Vor allem aber: niemand braucht sie hier... Natürlich haben nicht alle Erzählungen in diesem Band das gleiche Niveau, manchmal rutscht sowohl die Sprache als auch der Inhalt ab. Aber in den meisten Fällen ist es der Autorin sehr überzeugend gelungen, den Zwiespalt zwischen zwei Kulturen lebendig werden zu lassen. Was passiert, wenn man entweder versucht, die Wurzeln zu verleugnen, oder die alten Traditionen hinter sich zu lassen - und sie einen dann doch wieder einholen, wie bei dem jungen Pärchen, die beide in Amerika aufgewachsen sind, und sich nun trotzdem durch einen Heiratsvermittler kennen lernen. Dieses Aufeinanderprallen von alt und jung, Tradition und Moderne ist faszinierend zu lesen, und lässt das Verständnis für die Probleme von Einwanderern auf jeden Fall wachsen. Zwar nicht unbedingt große Literatur, aber auf jeden Fall lesenswert!

30. LESELUST Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt *** Literatur Aus chitra banerjee divakaruni - Wer dieSehnsucht kennt Roman. Diana Verlag, 380 Seiten, ISBN 3828400698 Ersch. http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/divakaruni_chitra_sehnsucht.htm

LESELUST eigene Meinung schreiben Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Wer die Sehnsucht kennt Roman. Diana Verlag, 380 Seiten, ISBN: 3828400698 Ersch. unter dem Titel "The Vine of Desire" bei Doubleday / Random House, Inc., New York Aus dem Amerikanischen Herbst 2002 von Angelika Naujokat Die Autorin: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wurde in Indien geboren und lebt heute mit ihrer Familie in den USA; für ihren ersten Band mit Erzählungen (Der Duft der Mangoblüten) erhielt die Berkeley-Absolventin und Dozentin für Creative Writing neben anderen Auszeichnungen den "American Book Award". Weitere Titel: Der Duft der Mangoblüten / Die Prinzessin im Schlangenpalast / Die Hüterin der Gewürze / Bengalische Sterne Wer die Sehnsucht kennt Für alle, die so wie ich den vorausgehenden Roman nicht kennen: Sunil und Anju werden einander versprochen, Anju verliebt sich in ihren Verlobten - doch dieser entbrennt in tiefe, unmögliche Liebe zu Anjus Schwester/Cousine Sudha, die er aber nicht leben kann. Nun sind seit den dramatischen Ereignissen bereits einige Jahre vergangen. Anju und Sunil leben in Amerika, und auch Sudha hat sich verheiratet. Als ihr Mann jedoch von ihr erwartet, dass sie das Kind, das sie erwartet, abtreiben lässt, weil es nur eine Tochter ist, trennt sie sich - trotz aller Schande, die dies für eine indische Frau bedeutet, von ihm. Und da Anju nach einer Fehlgeburt dringend nach familiärer Anteilnahme dürstet, lässt sie Sudha und ihre Tochter zu sich kommen. Schließlich ahnt sie nicht im Geringsten, welche Gefühle ihr Angetrauter für ihre liebste Vertraute hegt.

31. India Books... Divakaruni ... The Book Beat India Books The Book Beat chitra banerjee divakaruni. Welcome! The Beatin association chitra banerjee divakaruni. An awardwinning author http://arts.searchbeat.com/divak.htm

Amazon.com Jobs Metasearch Quick Searches! addresses area codes books cameras directions electronics email search europe maps int'l jobs jobs kitchen lawn and patio maps meta-search web movies movie times music news phone numbers software stocks tools and hardware toys traffic tv listings video games comparison shop family fashion gov't ... site map India Books ... The Book Beat Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Welcome! The Beat in association with Amazon.com brings you these books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni! To learn more about or to order one of the following books, just click on the book's title. India Internet Computer Travel Welfare Reform ... World War II Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni An award-winning author with her work published in over 50 magazines and her writing has been included in over 30 anthologies. Translated into 11 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese. Born in India and now living in the United States. Sister of My Heart How the lives of two women are changed by marriage, as one woman comes to California, and the other stays behind in India. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day on which the two girls were bornthe same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged.

32. Bold Type: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni author's unique and mesmerizing writing. Photo of chitra banerjeeDivakaruni copyright © Dru banerjee Send us comments, Bold Type, http://www.boldtype.com/0597/divakaruni/

What does it mean to be an Indian woman in America today? Few writers speak to the hyphenated-American experience more accurately and gracefully than Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni, author of Arranged Marriage. This book of short stories, in which she gives voice to several Indian women married in an age-old tradition, struggling between ancient and modern cultures, won several literary prizes and established the author as one of today's most exciting new voices. In her new novel, The Mistress of Spices, just released to stunning reviews, she draws the reader into the delicious, mystical world of Tilo and her magical Indian spice shop, and, once there, gives us a very real, bitter slice of modern-day Oakland. Her lyrical, sensual prose manages both to delight and horrify, and as we explore the hidden corners of Tilo's shop our senses are overwhelmed by what we find there, desires and fears nestled within the packages of turmeric and ginger, and a culture as old as lotus root trying to find its way in a new world. In this issue of Bold Type

33. Bookreporter.com - THE VINE OF DESIRE By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Books by chitra banerjee divakaruni THE VINE OF DESIRE THE UNKNOWNERRORS OF OUR LIVES SISTER OF MY HEART ARRANGED MARRIAGE. THE http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0385497296.asp

Books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni THE VINE OF DESIRE THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES SISTER OF MY HEART ARRANGED MARRIAGE THE VINE OF DESIRE Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Doubleday Fiction ISBN: 0385497296 Read an Excerpt Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni writes about what she knows and feels. And she is at her best exploring the themes of love, friendship, assimilation, self-analysis, and discovery. Divakaruni has carved out a very a special place in Indian literature – that of being a storyteller of immigrants, especially women, who must face the contradictions between the country they left behind and the one that they must call home. In that aspect, the award-winning author and poet's work always contains autobiographical elements. THE VINE OF DESIRE is a sequel to her earlier novel SISTER OF MY HEART, in which she explores the emotional bond between two cousins, Anju and Sudha, whose lives have been entwined by birth in their native city of Calcutta. We leave them leading separate lives in America and India, respectively. In THE VINE OF DESIRE, devastating events in both of their lives bring them together: Anju in America has had a miscarriage, and Sudha has walked out of her in-laws' and husband's house; she has refused to give in to their command of having an abortion when the fetus was declared to be a girl. She also is escaping from the suffocating embrace of her first love and former boyfriend, who insists on taking care of her and her daughter.

34. SAJA: Chitra Divakaruni Bio chitra banerjee divakaruni, who was born in India, is an awardwinning poet and writerwho is also a co-founder (and past president) of MAITRI, a helpline for http://www.saja.org/divakaruni.html

SAJA Home Profiles Roundup Membership ... SAJA Stylebook Profile of a SAJA Speaker: Chitra Banejee Divakaruni Buy and read more at Amazon Resources: ChitraDivakaruni.com Emory Divakaruni reading resources @ Random House Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Feb. 19, 2002 6:30-8:30 pm 725 Park Ave @ 70th St. Tix: $7 for SAJA/AsiaSociety members $10 for non-members Details RSVP: 212-517-ASIA boxoffice@asiasoc.org co-sponsored by Asian American Writers Workshop Visit Chitra's official Web site: ChitraDivakaruni.com C hitra Banerjee Divakaruni who was born in India, is an award-winning poet and writer who is also a co-founder (and past president) of MAITRI, a helpline for South Asian women. In 1995, her short story collection Arranged Marriage was awarded the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewer Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her fourth poetry collection, Leaving Yuba City, was published by Anchor in August of 1997. Her first novel Mistress of Spices was released by Anchor in 1998. Another novel, Sister of my Heart, was released in February 1999 by Bantam Doubleday Dell. The Unknown Error of Our Lives: Stories was published in April 2001.

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36. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932003. divakaruni, chitra banerjee.Sex, Female. National Origin, India. Ethnic Origin, Asian-American. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/divakaruni558-

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Sex Female National Origin India Ethnic Origin Asian-American Era Late 20th Century Born Awards Santa Clara Arts Council Award, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award Annotated Works A Perfect Life The Ultrasound Visit

37. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee The Ultrasound Literature Annotations. divakaruni, chitra BanerjeeThe Ultrasound. Genre, Short Story (27 pp.). http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/divakaruni145

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee The Ultrasound Genre Short Story (27 pp.) Keywords Abortion Acculturation Asian Experience Childbirth ... Women's Health Summary The narrator, Anju, and her cousin, Arundhati (Runu for short) are both young married Indian women who are pregnant for the first time, due to give birth within a few days of each other. The difference is that Anju lives in the United States and Runu in India. They write letters to each other, and when the story begins, Anju is planning a special telephone call to Runu because this is the day they are both due to get the results of their amniocentesis. As Anju anticipates the phone call, she provides information about both women. She grew up in a relatively affluent family in Calcutta, went to college, and moved to San Diego with her husband, Sunil. Runu was less wealthy, and married into a large and traditional Brahmin family in the provinces. Runu is strictly controlled by her mother-in-law.

38. Salon Magazine | Chitra Divakaruni: Spice Of Life Spice of Life By chitra banerjee divakaruni Talking to strangers By protecting ourchildren from the world, we sometimes also teach them to fear it (11/13/97). http://www.salon.com/archives/1997/mwt_diva.html

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39. ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Vine Of Desire By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Vine of Desire A Novel by chitra banerjee divakaruni List Price $13.00Pages 384 Format Paperback ISBN 038549730X Publisher Anchor Books. http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/vine_of_desire1.asp

Related Guides Arranged Marriage Sister of My Heart The Mistress of Spices Anchor Books ... Read a Review The Vine of Desire A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni List Price: Pages: Format: Paperback ISBN: Publisher: Anchor Books The Vine of Desire picks up where Divakaruni's bestselling novel, Sister of My Heart top of the page Anju tells her unborn son, Prem, stories of who she "used to be before the accident of America happened to [her]" [p. 12]. What does she mean by "the accident of America?" How are Sudha's and Anju's assimilation into American culture affected by the different circumstances that lead them there in the first place? Why does Sudha choose to return to India, while for Anju the idea of returning to India does not even seem to cross her mind? How is the process of assimilation different for Anju, Sunil, Lalit, Trideep, and Sudha? Why are some more successful than others? Do the characters identify as "Americans" or as "Indian-Americans?" What do incidents such as Sunil's attacking the valet at the party for making derogatory comments about Indians [p. 138] and Anju's sensitivity about the portrayal of Indians in the movies her schoolmates attend [pp. 213–4] demonstrate about their comfort with their place in America? How do Sunil, Anju, and Sudha each interpret the O. J. Simpson trial in light of the events taking place in their personal lives? How might Anju or Sunil answer Sudha's question: "What was the point of filling our head with their troubles?" [p. 111] How might Sudha answer her own question by the end of the novel?

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