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Social behaviour, is an indication of this search. "TheImaginary Assassin" also has a young male narrator attracted tosaints - a Sikh born in Yuba City, California in 1960. Whileother American kids "had their rock stars to make lifebearable"(parknese 190) he had his mythic stories of familymembers. His grandfather explains why he wanted to killandh hi-because of the brutalization of the Sikhs duringpartition."Visitors" is a re-working of the novel m. The storydeals with the undermining in America of the myths andillusions about marriage with which an Indian woman is broughtup. In both novel and story a man comes to the home on theEast Coast while the husband is out at work. In both cases thewlfe's mlnd is influenced by the romantlc notions of wifehoodconsidered along with the Indran concept of the United Statesas paradise. While in the novel the male is a white Americanwho becomes her lover, in the story the male is a young Indianwho wants to become her lover. Mukherjee attempts toprovide balance to an unbalanced situation. "IsolatedIncldentsu deals with a white Canadian woman in her latetwenties working for the Human Rights Office. Having lunchWith her old friend Poppy, now 'Peppi Paluka' Ann finds thatthe restaurant represents her dreams. We see the immigrantmythifying the callousness of the white Canadian, without