Unknown Errors of Our Lives

In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments-caught between past and present home and abroad tradition and fresh experience.<br>A widow in California recently arrived from India struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter. In The Intelligence of Wild Things a woman from Sacramento visits her brother in Vermont to inform him that back in Calcutta their mother is dying. And in the title story a painter looks to ancient myth and the example of her grandmother for help in navigating her first real crisis of faith.<br>Knowing compassionate and expertly rendered the stories in <b>The Unknown Errors of Our Lives</b><i> </i>depict the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.