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Jasmine

Jasmine Vijh, widowed in India at 17, flees to America. This is the story of her daring travels, her painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis and, eventually, the home she finds in Iowa where she accepts how inextricably her fate has become part of America's.

Genre
literary fictionhistorical fictioncoming of age
Themes
immigrationdiversitywomen
Setting
1980sindiafloridaiowacollege
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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