"Phenomenon of migration, the status of new immigrants, and the feeling of alienation often experienced by expatriates" as well as Indian women and their struggle always got importance in Bharati Mukherjee`s works. Her own struggle with identity first as an exile from India, then an Indian expatriate in Canada, and finally as a immigrant in the United States has lead to her current contentment of being an immigrant in a country of immigrants. Her own feelings are very much prominent in all of her writings. The author`s life can be divided in three phages in which it can be described abou tteh author`s feelings. Her earlier works, such as the `The Tiger`s Daughter and parts` or `Days and Nights in Calcutta`, are her attempts to find her identity in her Indian heritage. The story "The Tiger`s Daughter" parallels Mukherjee`s own venture back to India with Clark Blaise in 1973 when she was deeply affected by the chaos and poverty of Indian and mistreatment of women in the name of tradition.
Synopsis:
Leave It To Me by Bharati Mukherjee is the story of a child born to a hippie from California. This happened on a love-and-peace flower trip to India. the story also includes a character called "guru" who has the dubious distinction of leaving behind a trail of used and abused women, illegitimate children, rapes and murders across the Indian subcontinent. An unwanted female child is dropped like a hot brick at the nearest orphanage, where she is called Faustine. The child was later adopted by an Italian-American family, and christened as Debby DiMartino. Despite the love and affection of her foster family, Debby grows up with the awareness of being different, the feeling that she is an unwanted obstacle in a world that hurls on towards its mysterious destinations. The feeling is sometimes haunting when everyone is surrounded but someone is feeling alone. At the conclusion she comes to as she sets out in search of her past, her origins, and the unknown "bio-parents" who had callously abandoned her. As the story progresses with jerks and shocks in a picaresque fashion, bringing together a variety of characters who may or may not help the protagonist in her search for her "bio-mom." The story mainly revolves around that girl but at the same time takes some of te important aspect of life in a beautiful manner. Mukherjee seems fascinated with the changing identities of an individual. In many of her stories we see the same angle.
Leave It To Me is published by Ballantine Books in the year of 1998, which is Bharati Mukherjee`s one of another wonderful strong depicted woman characters.
Leave It To Me by Bharati Mukherjee is the plot that is more of a roller coaster ride than a logical sequence of events. Here the author is not afraid to describe some disturbing events, but that makes this book more powerful, and far more interesting than the inoffensive slush that gets pushed at women. As a whole this book is must read and though the language of the book is very simple still it contains some complexities underneath.
