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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Arranged Marriage
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A deeply moving debut collection of stories featuring Indian-born women whose ties to tradition and memories of home intrude on their new lives in America. Each story is complete in itself, but together they create a tapestry as colorful, as delicate, and as enduring as the finest silk sari.
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Black Candle : Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
poetry, first book by author of ARRANGED MARRIAGES This book is being shared by
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Queen of Dreams
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhihas her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her be
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Sister Of My Heart
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction.&160;&160;Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family.&160;&160;Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not.&160;&160;Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born--the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart.&160;&160;Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates
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The Mistress Of Spices
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers.Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immortal Tilo--in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman--travels through time to Oakland, California, where she opens a shop from which she administers spices as curatives to her customers.An unexp
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The Vine of Desire: A Novel
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Unknown Errors of Our Lives
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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We, Too, Sing America : A Reader for Writers
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Divided into ten thematic sections, this freshman reader illuminates the ways in which lives connect in spite of the differences that derive from ethnicity, community, age, class, or gender. Contemporary and deeply involving for all students, these sections move from simple to more sophisticated concepts, for example from the issues surrounding family to language to identity. Each reading was carefully selected to expose students to lifestyles, values, concerns, and problems different from th
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