Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

Author:Bharati Mukherjee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 1989-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

I am moved by Mary Webb’s story. What if the human soul is eternal—the swamis say of it, fires cannot burn it, water cannot drown it, winds cannot bend it—what if it is like a giant long-playing record with millions of tracks, each of them a complete circle with only one diamond-sharp microscopic link to the next life, and the next, and only God to hear it all?

I do believe that. And I do believe that extraordinary events can jar the needle arm, jump tracks, rip across incarnations, and deposit a life into a groove that was not prepared to receive it.

I should never have been Jane Ripplemeyer of Baden, Iowa. I should have lived and died in that feudal village, perhaps making a monumental leap to modern Jullundhar. When Jyoti’s future was blocked after the death of Prakash, Lord Yama should have taken her.

“Yes,” I say, “I do believe you. We do keep revisiting the world. I have also traveled in time and space. It is possible.”

Jyoti of Hasnapur was not Jasmine, Duffs day mummy and Taylor and Wylie’s au pair in Manhattan; that Jasmine isn’t this Jane Ripplemeyer having lunch with Mary Webb at the University Club today. And which of us is the undetected murderer of a half-faced monster, which of us has held a dying husband, which of us was raped and raped and raped in boats and cars and motel rooms?

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