Summary | Excerpt | Reading Guide | Reviews | Read-Alikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio

If you liked Vine of Desire, try these:
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsEight storieslonger and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet writtenthat take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
by Ha Jin
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
by Meg Mullins
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsLahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
by Kavita Daswani
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsAn unconventional heroine defies tradition by making a marriage between the strict customs of India and the wild freedoms of America to find her own happy ending.
by Bharati Mukherjee
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsA stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new - weaves together fascinating stories of the sisters' ancestors, their childhood memories, and dramatic scenes from India's history.
At times, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.