A collection of short stories set in India explores the adjustment of immigrants to a foreign land, the accommodations families make to the differences between generations, and the struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the promise of change.
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Chitra Divakaruni is the author of the bestselling novels <b>Mistress of Spices </b>and <b>Sister of My Heart</b>; the story collection <b>Arranged Marriage</b>, which received several awards, including the American Book Award; and four collections of prize-winning poetry. Her work has appeared in <i>The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Ms.</i>, <i>Best American Short Stories 1999, </i>and other publications. Born in India, she lives in the San Francisco area.
ed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni<i> </i>comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made <b>Mistress of Spices </b>and <b>Sister of My Heart</b> national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit.<br><br>"Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose?"<i> </i>a young woman asks in "The Love of a Good Man," one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives.<br><br>"The Love of a Good Man" tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States
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