3. I absolutely love it when writers jump around in time in their stories. Bharati Mukherjee did a really good job with this. She does it in a way that flows nicely. I also love when writers tell a part of the story in the beginning that you will see again in the middle. There’s something about it that is just so cool. When Mukherjee does it, it is the part where Taylor asks Jasmine or Jase why she would move to Idaho, which is how chapter two starts. Later in the novel, she tells about the moments leading up to it and then doesn’t actually say the part that already happened. Bharati basically says to the reader, “you know the rest,” which I think is very risky, which is very cool. Mukherjee tells the story in such a vivid way, you feel like you’re actually there witnessing the things happening to Jasmine. Also she creates a lot of pathos with Jasmine. She does it right off the bat by starting the book with the astrologer telling Jasmine that she would be a widow. There is suspense because you’re worried for Jasmine the whole book. So Mukherjee did a really good job of positioning the events in Jasmine’s story so that you would be compassionate toward her.