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Author: Bharati Mukherjee
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May 2002
 | Desirable Daughters
by Bharati Mukherjee
HarperFlamingo Canada
310 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005158
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Places Prone to Upheaval
by Padma Viswanathan
Bharati Mukherjee once said in an interview that she is a great fan of James Ellroy, the master of hardboiled LA crime fiction. She acknowledged that it might seem strange that "a very demure Indian lady sees James Ellroy as a kindred literary spirit." It might seem less strange now. Desirable Daughters, Mukherjee's newest novel, is classifiably noir. The story is propelled by a threat, possibly from Indian mafiosi, against innocent but wealthy targets. Read more...
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