"The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly [starred review]) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the ol
In Desirable Daughters, Mukherjee has written a novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin family on the brink of its dissolution, and a contemporary American story of a woman who has o
Struggling to reconcile with her estranged husband, Desirable Daughters narrator Tara Chatterjee relates the story of an East Bengali ancestor who married a tree at the age of five and who grew up to
