Exploring how migration has transformed the meaning of "America," Bharati Mukherjee's 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award winner includes tales of an aristocratic Filipina who negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker; a Vietnam vet returning to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience; and the title story, in which an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle.