Leave It to Me
by Bharati Mukherjee
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"A very fine writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound."--"The Washington Post Book World" "MUKHERJEE IS FEARLESS . . . DARING AND WITTY . . . Take the wild ride with Debby DiMartino from Albany to San Francisco, from lost child to masked avenger."--"The Boston Globe" "POWERFULLY WRITTEN . . . Debby has no memory of her birth parents. All she knows is that she was born in a remote Indian village, the daughter of a hippie back-packing mother and a show more mysterious Eurasian father, both of whom have disappeared almost without a trace. . . . Her quest for her biological parents turns into an obsession. . . . Leave It to Me . . . shows Mukherjee at the peak of her craft. . . . Mixing the Greek myth of Electra with the Indian myth of Devi, she sends Devi/Debby careening down on the Bay Area like an elemental force of vengeance."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "DEVI IS A BRILLIANT CREATION--hilarious, horribly knowing and even more horribly oblivious--through whom Bharati Mukherjee, with characteristic and shameless ingenuity, is laying claim to speak for an America that isn't 'other' at all."--"The New York Times Book Review" "STUNNING . . . An astute, ironic, and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "From the Trade Paperback edition." show lessTags
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This is a strange one. Overall, it was decent, and I mostly enjoyed it, but there were times when it got a bit too rambly and other times when it was just a bit too out there for my taste (okay, that's an understatement ... Loco Larry? Romeo Hawk?).
If you want to read a novel by Bharati Mukherjee, I would recommend Desirable Daughters and Jasmine over this one.
If you want to read a novel by Bharati Mukherjee, I would recommend Desirable Daughters and Jasmine over this one.
I enjoyed Holder of the World by Mukherjee, but was disappointed with this one. The characters are shallow in thought and description. The author doesn't provide enough detail about any of them for the reader to understand or sympathize with any of their actions. Most of these actions, which would be pretty horrific in the real world, are presented as if they are not unusal to this society-- why??
I would not recommend this.
I would not recommend this.
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Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India on July 27, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1959 and a master's degree from the University of Baroda in 1961. After sending six stories to the University of Iowa, she was accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She received an M.F.A. in 1963 and a show more doctorate in comparative literature in 1969 from the University of Iowa. She married fellow student Clark Blaise, a Canadian author, in 1963. They moved to Montreal in 1966, where she taught English at McGill University. They moved back to the United States in 1980. After teaching creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, and Queens College, she taught postcolonial and world literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Darkness, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, Desirable Daughters, The Tree Bride, and Miss New India. In 1988, The Middleman and Other Stories won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. She died from complications of rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a stress-induced heart condition, on January 28, 2017 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Laat me
- Original title
- Leave It to Me
- Original publication date
- 1997 (Engels) (Engels); 1999 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
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