New India

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2011

Bharati Mukherjee, professor of English at UC Berkeley, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Miss New India, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) talks about her new novel about a girl who flees an arranged marriage and ends up working in a call center in Bangalore.

Event: Bharati Mukherjee will be reading from her book tonight at 7pm at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

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