The Drum

Bharati Mukherjee is the author of eight novels, most recently Miss New India, Desirable Daughters, and The Tree Bride, two collections of stories, Darkness and The Middleman and other stories; and the co-author, with Clark Blaise, of two books of non-fiction Days and Nights in Calcutta, and The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy, and numerous essays on immigration and American culture. She is the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics' Circle award for best fiction. She has been professor of English at University of California-Berkeley since 1989.

Her story "The Going-Back Party" appears in the May 2012 issue of The Drum.