Higher education of women in Europe

Her multiple identities embody the physical and mental spaces that she traverses between the village of Hasnapur in India and the United States, fleeing immigration authorities and murderous ghosts from her past, seeking a belonging amidst the anguished thorns of various identities that struggle for integration. The confident tone of this novel reflects the protagonist's boldness, her search to escape the fate of widowhood and exile foretold by an astrologer at the beginning of the text. Mukherjee's previous novels do not present women like Jasmine, who is ready by the end of the novel to "re-position the stars…greedy with wants and reckless from hope." In The Tiger's Daughter, Tara, an upper-class Bengali woman, enters the United States for an undergraduate degree at Vassar. A familiar trajectory of the immigrant experience is explored — higher education and research facilities beckon one into the United States. Often, the qualifications acquired may disqualify one from finding a job in India, hence, the straddling of continents ...»