Can anyone give me a summary on the novel: Jasmine by Mukherjee?

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Jasmine's arranged marriage to a young Indian back in their home town ends abruptly when he is killed in a bombing. Still in her teens but already a widow, Jasmine flees India and, after an odyssey, arrives in Florida on a small boat and enters the United States as an illegal immigrant. During her first night in America, which she spends huddled together with some other illegal aliens in a disused motel, she kills the captain of the ship after he has raped her.





Aimlessly walking along a country road not knowing what to do next, Jasmine is picked up by a woman who has helped other illegal immigrants before her. After being given some basic introduction to U.S. society, she sets out to look for a fatherly friend of her dead husband's who is said to be working as a university professor. However, when Jasmine actually meets him she realizes that he holds some menial job and that for years he has been lying about it in his letters back home.





Disillusioned by this experience, Jasmine wanders on and gets a job as a nanny. She falls in love with her employer, and after he and his wife separate, Jasmine has a brief fling with him and soon realizes that it is time she moved on. She ends up in a small town in Iowa, where she attracts the attention of an old woman whose son is a rich and influential man as the town's banker, after Jasmine moves in, he is shot and becomes paralysed. Her live in boyfriend, Bud, would like to have a child by her, so she is artificially inseminated. However, near the end of her pregnancy, having never married Bud, she decides to leave him again and move to California with her former employer, who has custody of his daughter, Jasmine's former charge.





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