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This author described her own "twin halves" when living in a foreign country where she faced sentiments of racism in the essay "An Invisible Woman," which parallels the protagonist of one of her novels who stabs her husband seven times. Â The narrator concludes that "I think I can only envy her" when thinking of Kusum, a woman who lost her daughter, in this author's story "The (*) Management of Grief." Â In one of this author's novels, the title character lives on a farm in Iowa with an adopted child, Du, and the crippled Bud Ripplemeyer after the death of her husband at a young age. Â Often focusing on themes of displacement and immigration, this author wrote the collections Darkness and The Middleman and Other Stories. Â For 10 points, name this author of the novels Wife and Jasmine who hails from India.
This author described her own "twin halves" when living in a foreign country where she faced sentiments of racism in the essay "An Invisible Woman," which parallels the protagonist of one of her novels who stabs her husband seven times.
Bharati Mukherjee [prompt on partial answer]