The Tiger's Daughter Author:Bharati Mukherjee A compelling novel of people and cultures in collision. It is the story of Tara born in Calcutta and schooled in Poughkeepsie, New York and married to an American. After seven years, Tara returns alone to the Calcutta of her childhood: to the Bengali Tiger, her father; to the naive chatter of her old friends. With a delicious combination of mali... more »ce and charm, irony and sympathy, Bharati Mukherjee tells how Tara is pushed to the edges of her old world yet exiled from the new, and how she tires to reconcile the two worlds in her heart...
'The theme of adjusting to a new culture, the trials, tribulations and traumas that afflict immigrants trying to make it into the new world have been deftly handled... With a combination of malice and charm, irony and sympathy, Mukherjee describes how Tara is pushed to the edges of her old world yet exiled from the new, and how she tries vainly to reconcile the two worlds in her heart.' --The Tribune« less