Jasmine | Jasmine Vijh
Jyoti is a beautiful, smart, dowryless girl born eighteen years after the Partition Riots in a makeshift birthing hut in Hasnapur, Jullundhar District, Punjab, India. She is the fifth daughter, the seventh of nine children. An astrologer tells the young Jasmine's fate of widowhood and alienation, and both predictions come true. She attends school twice as long as most Indian girls, and impresses her teachers with her intelligence. Jyoti's name and identity change and change. Her grandma names her Jyoti, meaning "light." Prakash, her Indian husband killed by a terrorist bomb, calls her...
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