Jasmine (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Southfield and Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Principal Characters: Jasmine, The Daboos, Bill Moffitt, Lara Hatch-Moffitt
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Self-discovery, Caribbean, Midwest, American Dream, 1980’s, Asia or Asians, Immigration or emigration, Adultery, India or East Indian people, Servants, Ambition, Aliens, illegal, Refugees, Asian Americans, Parties
- Locales: Michigan
The Story
Jasmine, a vivacious, starry-eyed, young Indian woman from Trinidad who believes that Trinidad is too small for a girl with ambition, has herself smuggled into the United States to find a well-employed husband and forge a new life. She enters Detroit from the Canadian border while hidden in the back of a mattress truck. With her daddy's admonition that opportunity comes only once resounding in her ears, she challenges herself to use her wits and to refashion her destiny.
Being an illegal alien, Jasmine spends her first few months working as a chambermaid and...
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