This book titled Displacements and Alienation of Indian Diaspora in the selected works of Chitra Divakaruni, Bharati Mukherji and Jhumpa Lahiri has not only struck an emotional cord, but has actually pulled at the heart strings of any writer who is an expatriate or claims to be one. The poignancy and tenderness with which she discusses the acculturation of writers and the subsequent void in emotional and physical relationships of these chosen few, is soul searching and brings on great moments of reckoning of a reality that has come to stay. Whether it is by choice or otherwise, the Diaspora expatriate has committed atrophy on himself, and the healing, if there is one, is in the empathy and mute admiration of his efforts.
