"I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, "Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals." My protagonists are very feisty characters. And, you know, that there is no one unified story about the immigrant experience or the immigrant passage and what I hope I've done in DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS is show how fractured the responses to that whole odyssey of moving, pulling up your roots from your original country and re-rooting yourself in an adopted country is."
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Novelists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesWomen born in the 1940s
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On what she hoped to convey in her novel Desirable Daughters in “Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee” (RetroReport on PBS; 2003 Jun 20)
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Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American writer and English professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
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