Review
Divakaruni often focuses on the balance between two worlds -
most often the world of Indian immigrants struggling to assimilate themselves
into American life. While not moving away from this entirely, in
Queen of
Dreams she takes a somewhat different tack in order to explore the gulf
between a mother able to interpret dreams and a daughter attempting to
understand her. Like so many novels written by Indian-American writers this one is set in California, Berkeley to be precise. Rakhi Gupta is a
thirty-something artist going through the usual traumas of family and career;
things are getting so bad that she's desperate enough to turn to her mother, a
dream reader (someone who can inhabit someone's else's dreams and interpret
them) for help.
However, before she can do so her mother is killed in a car accident and, her
father, who was...
Beyond the Book
Divakaruni is the author of at least 12 books, including novels, short stories,
poetry and two novels for children. Her work has also been published in
about 30 anthologies. In addition to
Queen of Dreams, you can browse
Sister of My Heart (1999),
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives (Short
stories: 2001),
Vine of Desire (2002), and
The Conch Bearer
(children) at
BookBrowse.
