Summary Of Two Ways To Belong In America By Bharati Mukherjee

In “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukherjee writes about her struggles self-identifying while being an immigrant in America from Calcutta, India, accompanied with her sister by her side. Bharati and her sister move to America to attend college and get jobs with their degrees. While both sister agreed to return to India when done, they both took different routes. Mira married an Indian man she met in college, had her job of a preschool teacher which she loved dearly, and stuck to her Indian roots. Bharati married a Canadian American and embraced the American culture that she ended up loving more so than her Indian roots. However, both girls were faced with complications when Congress wanted immigrants to proclaim that they were American