Jasmine

When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .

• No Longer at Ease
• The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
• America Is in the Heart (Penguin Classics)
• Native Speaker
• No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
• Swimming With Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers by Joris Luyendijk (2015-09-17)
• Obasan
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
• La Maravilla
• The Buddha in the Attic (Pen/Faulkner Award - Fiction)