SOURCE: “The On-Going Quest of Bharati Mukherjee from Expatriation to Immigration,” in The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Critical Symposium, Prestige Books, 1996, pp. 25-38.

In the following essay, Gomez claims that Mukherjee's two collections of short stories, both written after leaving Canada for the United States, reflect her new sense of integration into the New World, and that her personal sense of exile was portrayed in the earlier novels written while she was living in Canada.

Bharati Mukherjee, born in 1940 in Calcutta, married a Canadian fellow-student, Clark Blaise, at the University of Iowa, in 1963. She lived in Canada from 1966 to 1980. She became a naturalized Canadian, got Canadian citizenship and lived in Toronto and then in Montreal and held teaching positions at McGill University and Concordia University. She migrated to the U.S.A. in 1980 with her family and became a U.S.A. citizen in 1988.

While in Canada...