Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth is about a twelve-year-old girl who immigrates to the USA from India. Seema has always lived with her sister, mother, father, aunt, uncle, 2 cousins, grandmother, and grandfather. Seema is especially upset to be leaving her cousin Raju, who is the same age and has always been like a brother to her. One of Seema's schoolmates, Mukta, brings her a going-away present. Kids at school always make fun of Mukta because she smells, and when Seema visits Mukta, she realizes that Mukta is very poor. Seema's family moves to Iowa and starts to fit in there, but a year later they have to return to India to visit her sick grandmother. Seema worries about Mukta and misses Raju and the rest of her family while she is in Iowa, but when she returns to India, she finds that a part of her also misses her new home.