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Book Overview
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of The Middleman and Other Stories features tales of a successful businessman enraged at his grown daughter's artificial insemination and a reunion with a friend that causes a woman to see her own job in a new light. Reprint.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0449220990
ISBN13:9780449220993
Release Date:March 1992
Publisher:Fawcett Books
Length:175 Pages
Weight:2.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.1" x 6.9"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Darkness
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Mukherjee writes with sharp wit, presenting her Indian immigrant characters in uncomfortable, absurd, and often terrible situations. Her stories are about people who surrender "little bits of a reluctant self every year, clutching the souveniers of an ever-retreating past" [from her "Introduction"]. Her immigrant characters want to fit in their new America, and yet they want to cling to their pasts, their cultures, their ethics. They want to be American, in the sense of being successful and fitting in, and yet they can't reconcile themselves to it; America, often, rejects them, eats away at their traditions, their values, and even their self-respect. Note, though, that Mukherjee does not moralize; she never loses her sense of irony or absurdity.
4 Stars
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
It's really a wonderful short stories. I like, especially, Father. I am a parent and a Asian, so I can understand his feelings. I don't think it is a murder.
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