Jasmine

“Mukherjee gives us the gift of being allowed to see ourselves in all our inconsistencies . . . To build our hearts so they might always reflect, like Jasmine, what it means to carry what is fraught and scared and dismissive and hopeful and wild inside us, and choose love.” —Mira Jacob, from the new introduction

When Jasmine was first published the New York Times called it “one of the most suggestiv...