Leave It to Me
by Bharati MukherjeeDebby has no memory of her birth parents.
All she knows is that she was born in a remote Indian village, the daughter of a hippie back-packing mother and a mysterious Eurasian father, both of whom have disappeared almost without a trace.
- First published
- 1999
- Publishers
- Random House Value Publishing
A brutal book that seems to favor nature over nurture. I liked it, even so.
This is a strange one. Overall, it was decent, and I mostly enjoyed it, but there were times when it got a bit too rambly and other times when it was just a bit too out there for my taste (okay, that's an understatement ...
I loved Holder of the World. I enjoyed it so much that I recommended it to my book club to read, and so I have read it twice.
About Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian-born award winning American writer who explored the internal culture clashes of her immigrant characters in the award-winning collection The Middleman and Other Stories and in novels like Jasmine and Desirable Daughters.Ms. Mukherjee, a native of Calcutta, attended schools in England, Switzerland and India, earned advanced degrees in creative writing in the United States and lived for more than a decade in Canada, affording her a wealth of experience in the modern realities of multiculturalism.She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1959 and a master’s degree from the University of Baroda, in Gujarat, in 1961. After sending six handwritten stories to the University of Iowa, she was accepted into the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied with Philip Roth and Vance Bourjaily in her first year. She earned an M.F.A. in 1963 and a doctorate in comparative literature in 1969 at Iowa.After years of short-term academic appointments, Ms. Mukherjee was hired in 1989 to teach postcolonial and world literature at the University of California, Berkeley.Bharati Mukherjee died on Saturday, January 28, 2017 in Manhattan. She was 76....
Books
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Darkness
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Remote Sensing of Sun-Earth Climate
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India in the Indian Ocean World
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Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience
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Dynamics of a Rural Society
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In the Sum of the Parts
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Remote Sensing and GIS
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Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience
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Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Essentials of Fuzzy Soft Multisets
Anjan Mukherjee
Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicine
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Pharmacokinetics
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Final Frontiers
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In the Sum of the Parts
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Looking East
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Decision-Making
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Evening Star
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Warrior Cup
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Process Engineering and Plant Design
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Maritime Law in Motion
Proshanto K. Mukherjee
Remote Sensing and GIS
Alok Bhushan Mukherjee
'Big Four' Snakes of India
Ashis K. Mukherjee
Atlas of Structural Geology
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Rural Women - the Untapped Potential
Abhishek Mukherjee
Adaptive Robust Control for Planar Snake Robots
Joyjit Mukherjee
Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
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Race Ethnicity and Religion in Conflict Across Asia
Kunal Mukherjee
Elephants and Cheetahs
Saral Mukherjee
Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town
Abhishek Mukherjee
Digitization of Economy and Society
Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee
Digitization of Economy and Society
Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee
Indian Ocean Histories
Rila Mukherjee
Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery
Debabrata Mukherjee
Damodar, a Riverscape
Bhaskar Mukherjee
Death in the East
Abir Mukherjee
Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
Award-winning writer abir mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery novel in the raj-era wyndham and banerjee series.
Process Engineering and Plant Design
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Power of Self-Awareness
Subra Mukherjee
The Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
*a the times book of the year** 'an exceptional historical crime novel' c.
Mantras
Swami Veda Bharati
Unseen City
Ankhi Mukherjee
Goddess of Skies
Reshmi Mukherjee
Riverine Systems
Abhijit Mukherjee
Process Engineering and Plant Design
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rediscovering Cancer
Sayali Mukherjee
Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience
Mahua Mukherjee
Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
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Collected English Writings
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Tales of a Hotelwallah
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