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Book SynopsisBorn in India, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni lives near San Francisco with her husband and two children. She teaches creative writing at a local college, and is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. She is the author of several award-winning volumes of poetry, as well as Arranged Marriage, her acclaimed collection of short stories, a bestseller in America and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, an American Book Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. She is also the author of two novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart.
Trade ReviewA dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic. -- Amy Tan
I read Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel
The Mistress of Spices and felt excited and empowered by the way she used words * Guardian *
An unusual, clever, and often exquisite first novel...The result is rather as if Isabel Allende met Laura Esquivel. * Los Angeles Times *
A splendid novel, beautifully conceived and crafted. -- Pat Conroy
Mythical and mystical,
Mistress of Spices is reminiscent of fables and fairy tales. . . . The story Divakaruni tells is transporting, but it is her gift for metaphor that makes this novel live and breathe, its pages as redolent as any freshly ground spice. * Booklist *
