Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration
that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback
edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the
vision of this important modern writer. An aristocratic Filipina
negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A
Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia
of his war experience. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose
travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting
guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and
tender, these stories draw us into the center of a cultural fusion in
the midst of its birth pangs, yet glowing with the energy and exuberance
of a society remaking itself.