The title character comes to the United States illegally from Trinidad in this author's novel Jasmine, while her most famous collection contains the stories "Orbiting," and "A Wife's Story," in addition to the title story about Alfie Judah.
In one novel by this author, the narrator Beigh Masters recreates the life of Hannah Easton Legge. In a short story by this writer, Ratna Clayton and her husband Graeme come from Montreal to an unspecified island nation where a revolution is in progress, and takes its title from a scientific article on geology which Graeme reads at the dinner table. In addition to writing the story, "The World According to Hsu," collected in her volume of stories titled Darkness, this author wrote of Dimple Dasgupta, who kills her husband Amit after falling in love with Milt Glasser in her novel, Wife. The title character comes to the United States illegally from Trinidad in this author's novel Jasmine, while her most famous collection contains the stories "Orbiting," and "A Wife's Story," in addition to the title story about Alfie Judah. For ten points, identify this Indian-born author of The Holder of the World, The Tiger's Daughter, and Middleman and Other Stories.
In one novel by this author, the narrator Beigh Masters recreates the life of Hannah Easton Legge.
Bharati Mukherjee