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The palace of illusions by chitra banerjee divakaruni each story provides a different take on arranged marriage because the individual in each story is different. Chitra banerjee divakaruni, a prolific author, an enthusiastic poet, a vigorous novelist, is notably a vibrant activist working on the advisory board of maitri in san francisco bay area, and daya in houston, both are the organizations that help battered and exploited women. Chitra banerjee divakaruni is the author of the bestselling novels queen of dreams, mistress of spices, sister of my heart, and the vine of desire, and the prizewinning story collections arranged flowers and the unknown errors of our lives. Chitra banerjee divakarunis arranged marriage 1995, a collection of eleven short stories presents portraits of indian and indiareared american women who are forced to live a peripheral existence owing to the pressures of cultural norms, parental, familial expectations, traditions and customs aimed at conforming them to perpetuate patriarchal interests.
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