THE MIDDLEMAN AND OTHER STORIES: <i> by Bharati Mukherjee (Grove Press: $15.95; 192 pp.) </i>
Unlike earlier generations of immigrants, these new settlers jet in from Bombay or Calcutta with AmEx cards and university degrees in hand, imagining themselves prepared for life in the New World.
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