The Unknown Errors Of Our Lives

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Dinakaran captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter.

” In “The Intelligence of Wild Things,” a woman from Sacramento visits her brother in Vermont to inform him that back in Calcutta their mother is dying. And in the title story, a painter looks to ancient myth and the example of her grandmother for help in navigating her first real crisis of faith. Knowing, compassionate and expertly rendered, the stories in The Unknown Errors of Our Lives depict the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.

Language English
ISBN-10 0385497288
ISBN-13 9780385497282
No of pages 265
Font Size Medium
Book Publisher Anchor Books
Published Date 15 Jan 2002

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Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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