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Jasmine, Mukherjee's most popularly read novel, stems from an earlier short story from The Middleman and Other Stories and was expanded to a story of a young widow who uproots herself from her life in India and re-roots herself in search of a new life and the image of America. This book follows a young girl named Jyoti, born in the state of Punjab in India. She is widowed by the time she is 17, and goes from being Jyoti to Jasmine to Jane Ripplemeyer, the wife of an Iowa banker. The details of Jasmine's past lives unfold slowly, allowing the reader to experience firsthand what it is to be an immigrant. More... (© Voices From the Gaps)

Booknotes about Jasmine:

• Mukherjee's work: Jasmine http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/mukherjee_work.shtml
  part of a larger site with information on the writer and her work from a BBC series
  
  
• Jasmine - Identity In Exile - An Essay
  http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit04302001/bookreview.asp
  
  
• The Journey Motif Analyzed in Heart of Darkness and Jasmine - student essay
  http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JSW/number21/brooks.html
  
  
• Breaking the Borders of Gendered Space: Female Characters in Aritha van Herk's No Fixed Address and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine - student essay
  http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JSW/number22/contents.htm
  
  
• The Technological Hybrid as Post-American: Cross-Cultural Genetics in "Jasmine." by John K. Hoppe
  The essay argues that Mukherjee's work should be classifed as cross-cultural because of its "emphasis on the dynamic interplay encompassing both change and preservation."
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/4_24/63323864/print.jhtml (FindArticles.com © MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States)
  
  
• Leave it to Me by Manju Jaidka
  This review focusses on Leave it to me, another book by Mukherjee. Jaidka lists similarities and differences with Jasmine.
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/4_24/63323875/p1/article.jhtml (FindArticles.com; © MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States)