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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. She lives with her older lover, the paralyzed banker Bud Ripplemeyer.
They live in a small home with their adopted Vietnamese son Du. Bud left his ex-wife Karen for Jasmine, who appeals to his worn, jaded, middle-aged sensibility, but he does not know how to please her. Rural Iowa is filled with farmers in dire straits, like their next-door neighbor, Darrel Lutz.
As a child, she is called Jyoti, and she is bright and eager to learn. Before they can begin their journey to America, Prakash is killed in a terrorist bomb attack.
The captain of the trawler, Half-Face, takes her to a local motel and rapes her. As she wanders the Florida backroads alone, she meets Lillian Gordon, a woman who assists undocumented female immigrants escape from the violence and abuse of their pasts and blend into American culture. Lillian gives Jasmine a place to stay, clothes to wear, and food to eat. She is treated as a professional, not a servant. But one day in the park, Jasmine recognizes a hot dog vendor as Sukhwinder, the radical terrorist who killed Prakash.
If the pandemic has put you into a bit of a reading lull, this is the novel that will snap you out of it. Two books have stood out above others for most of my life, though a third choice has to be selected from about 20 competing titles of varying kinds.
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Publisher: Grove Press. Released: Dec 1, ISBN: Format: Book. When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world.
In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers.
In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. Literary Fiction. About the author BM. Read more. Related to Jasmine Related Books. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Related Podcast Episodes. He discusses taking walks in the park—like his character—as a form of me by Writers on Writing 1 min listen.
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