Tara Chatterjee, the heroine of Desirable Daughters, isback and ready to embark on the most universal of journeys: a search for herroots. The Calcutta-born but very much American Tara must trace the story of hergreat-great-aunt, Tara Lata. Her search takes her deep into her family history—andinto the history of her ancestral village—unearthing discoveries that aresurprising, shocking and ultimately cathartic.

Bharati Mukherjee, long recognized for her elegant, evocativeprose and her sophisticated characters— influenced by ancient customs yetanchored in modern times—has conjured another lively story that will leavereaders longing for the world they have left.

BHARATI MUKHERJEE is the author of seven novels (most recently Desirable Daughters and The Tree Bride), two collections of short stories (Darkness and The Middleman and Other Stories), and the co-author, with Clark Blaise, of two books of non-fiction (Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy). She has also written numerous essays on immigration and American culture. She is the first naturalized U.S. citizen to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Fiction. She has been a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1989.

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