Desirable Daughters (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Family or family life, New York, United States or Americans, Wives, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, New York City, Immigration or emigration, Single parents or single-parent families, New Jersey, Upper classes, Women, India or East Indian people, Career women, Homemakers
- Locales: New York, San Francisco, CA, New Jersey, Bombay, India, Calcutta, India
Desirable Daughters employs unusual amounts of autobiographical material in an immigrant novel of self-discovery that combines elements of fairy-tale-like myth with a suspenseful mystery-thriller plot.
The daughters are three sisters from Calcutta (Kolkatta), India, brought up like modern princesses within their protective wealthy Hindu Brahmin caste. They live in the exclusive enclave of Ballygunge, are schooled in English at the Loreto convent by Irish nuns, perform in The Mikado, and are shown off by doting parents at cocktail parties. They are obviously modeled...
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