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Jasmine

By: Bharati Mukherjee
Narrated by: Farah Bala
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Publisher's summary

When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at 17, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.

Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her - our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives.

©1989 Bharati Mukherjee (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded in creating a kind of impressionistic fable, a prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today." (The New York Times)
"A beautiful novel, poetic, exotic, perfectly controlled." (San Francisco Chronicle)

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Great book to put you to sleep

I did not enjoy this at all. I listened to it when I wanted to sleep. Now I know why it was only $2.

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compelling

wonderful perspective shift that added to my world a little more! hated the ending though.

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Insufferable

Had to listen for school, was almost impossible to empathize with the insufferable protagonist. She ruined multiple people's lives, felt entitled to extreme amounts of help, and was generally unthankful. She was most sympathetic when she (spoiler) killed a man. This book is more likely to make you jaded than open your mind, and intentionally says edgy cliches to convince you it is an open-minded book.

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amazing book, great presentation!

The last chapter is in this book is phenomally performed by Bala! of course, the entirety of the book is great, though the last chapter stays with you.

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great book

loved it great story & awesome ending. I liked the back & forth of the story between the places she lived at.

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