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or confronting death

In the early morning hours of October 24

Next Big Idea Club selection—chosen by Malcolm Gladwell

for their land

and its threat to mankind

Desirable Daughters daughter of smoke & bone or confronting death"The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly [starred review]) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new now available in paperback. In the tradition of the Joy Luck Club, Bharati Mukherjee has written a remarkable novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin Indian family and a contemporary American story of a woman who has in