Bharati Mukherjee

&quto;Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ear ... and foretold my widowhood and exile," relates Jyoti, fifth cursed daughter in a family of nine. Though she can't escape fate, Jyoti reinvents herself time and again. She leaves her dusty Punjabi village to marry …

Desirable Daughters is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee. The sequel to this novel is The Tree Bride.

Darkness, is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee.