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Writer Bharati Mukherjee

Writer Bharati Mukherjee's new novel is Desirable Daughters (Theia Press). Mukherjee is an Indian-born writer who emigrated to the U.S. as an adult. Her new novel is about a traditional Brahmin family transformed by contemporary culture. Mukherjee is the author of five novels, two nonfiction books and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Corrected: February 1, 2017 at 12:00 AM EST
A previous headline and story misspelled Bharati Mukherjee's name as Bharti.