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"I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class."

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About Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian-born American writer known for novels and short fiction about migration and identity. She taught literature and creative writing at major U.S. universities.

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