The first naturalized citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle AwardBharati Mukherjee b. 1940 born into a rigid hierarchy as a Bengali Brahminand raised ... » 

The first naturalized citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle AwardBharati Mukherjee b. 1940 born into a rigid hierarchy as a Bengali Brahminand raised in the elite of Calcutta society joined the American masses bychoice. This journey from a privileged yet circumscribed life to one of freewill and risk supplied the experiences she has turned into literature.From her first interview originally published over three decades ago in hernative tongue Bengali in the Calcutta journal Desh and appearing here for thefirst time in English to an indepth interview in 2007 granted specificallyfor this collection this volume provides a candid look at the woman who hasbeen called the grande dame of diasporic Indian literature. «