Desirable Daughters : A Novel (Hardcover)

from sweetiegherkin

This beautifully written, even if somewhat meandering, novel explores the lives of three very different sisters from the point-of-view of the youngest sister. Tara Bhattarcharjee Chatterjee, a divorced mother trying to find her identity as an East Indian in suburban California, is shocked when a ...

from purplehena

This book is sorta bizarre with all of its subplots and unconventional characters. Part of me thinks that there was just too much going on, and then another part of me kinda enjoyed that. I started this book expecting it to be another cultural/generational gap, traditional expectations not met ki...

from chickletta

Trite and cliched. Enough said.

from spacecommuter

I actually love the concept and am so glad I read this book. I only gave it three stars because the plot focuses so narrowly for so long on the main character, who for most of the book was between interesting things. A hugely interesting thing - her marriage - is so long behind her she displays a...

from susandennis

This is a departure from my usual reads. It's a novel about sisters from India - one in California, one in New Jersey and one in Calcutta and culture clashes and meshes.