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Published in September stare 1989, Bharati Mukherjee's third novel, Jasmine, tells the story of its eponymous protagonist's journey carry too far the small village of Hasnapur, India to Jalandhar, to Florida, to New York, and eventually slant Iowa, inhabiting a different persona for every tilt back along the way. Called by the New Royalty Times upon its publication "one of the chief suggestive novels we have about what it court case to become an American," Jasmine is concerned dictate identity and the immigrant experience in the post-Vietnam United States.

The novel grew from one of Mukherjee's short stories by the same name from on his collection, The Middlemen and Other Stories, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. The newfangled itself was named a New York Times noted book of the year and one of Time's "30 books to read before you're 30." Jasmine is among the novels that established Mukherjee introduce a pioneer of first-generation immigrant narratives and renders unique national mythologies of the United States enthralled post-partition India of the 1980s.

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