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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's acclaimed novels for adults include the bestselling The Mistress of Spices, soon to be a motion picture. Her previous book for young readers, The Conch Bearer, was a Booklist Editors' Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and is a 2005 Texas Bluebonnet... show more

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's acclaimed novels for adults include the bestselling The Mistress of Spices, soon to be a motion picture. Her previous book for young readers, The Conch Bearer, was a Booklist Editors' Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and is a 2005 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and lives with her husband and two sons in Sugarland, Texas.
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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Books
The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Sister of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Oleander Girl - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales - Francine Prose, Ursula K. Le Guin, A.S. Byatt, Lucy Grealy, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Lydia Millet, Fay Weldon, Bell Hooks, Rosellen Brown, Vivian Gornick, Deborah Eisenberg, Patricia Foster, Linda Gray Sexton, Terri Windling, Alice Adams, Kathryn Dav The Conch Bearer - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Arranged Marriage: Stories - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage - Cathi Hanauer, Hope Edelman, Kate Christensen, Karen Karbo, Natalie Kusz, E.S. Maduro, Veronica Chambers, Jen Marshall, Sarah Miller, Kerry Herlihy, Catherine Newman, Hazel McClay, Pam Houston, Jill Bialosky, Cynthia Kling, Hannah Pine, Kristin van Ogtrop, Laurie Abraham, Queen of Dreams - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Neela: Victory Song - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Susy Pilgrim Waters The World Tree - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions: A Novel - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Lives Of Strangers - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Reason for Nasturtiums - Chitra Bane... The Reason for Nasturtiums - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology... Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology Of Literature From The United States - Laurie King, M. Scott Momaday, Alice Walker, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Nikki Giovanni, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Martin Luther King Jr., Gish Jen Leaving Yuba City: Poems - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The River - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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One Amazing Thing - Chitra Divakaruni
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's readers
EpicFehlReader Rena79 Readingpal Josiehime Feminism in Cold Storage litavore Figgy O'Connell A Reading Vocation Piovono Giuggiole ladybugpie They are not just books danzilla74 Momster Bookworm Themis-Athena's Garden of Books deborahmarkus7 rrkreads Habina La Mala *the mean girl* Sorry kids, no feet. yeshwanth
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Merle
Merle rated it 8 years ago
text The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Fun, accessible retelling of an epic I'm not familiar with - it's given me a strong starting point; from what I've seen it appears she's quite faithful to the original, only reassessing character motivations. The narrator has a strong voice and the author does a good job making character decisions s...
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litavore
litavore rated it 9 years ago
text Arranged Marriage: Stories
Divakaruni isn't my usual style when it comes to Indian authors,my preference being books based in the continent itself. But I was very happily surprised by this collection of short stories. Very interesting varieties between character personalities, time, place and all of them very well done. I wou...
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A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 9 years ago
text Book 12/100: Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
This book is essentially "chick lit" set in India. I don't particularly like that word as a descriptor as I think it is a pejorative way of classifying storylines that interest women, but it does call to mind certain tropes. And this book was rife with them -- lots of family drama, secrets about the...
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Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 9 years ago
text The Palace of Illusions
3.5 StarsI have read a lot of mythology. I know the stories of the Celtic tribes, the Germanic people who would conquer them, the Romans l the Greeks, and even of many of the nation's who inhabited North America. I am less familiar with the mythologies of the East, particularly India. Perhaps it was...
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Momster Bookworm
Momster Bookworm rated it 9 years ago
text The Mistress of Spices
While magical realism abounds in this tale, there is a part of me that believes in the talent and ability of certain individuals in 'prescribing' herbs and spices to cure ailments and to correct the imbalance found in daily living -- as attributed to the central protagonist in this account. I liked ...
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