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Blue Jasmine.


Blue Jasmine jasmine (jăs`mĭn, jăz–) or jessamine (jĕs`əmĭn), any plant of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae (olive family).  

Kashmira Sheth n. 1. The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; - also called standard ltname>, or post ltname>.  

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Seema's close ties with her entire extended family in India are broken when her parents decide on a temporary move to Iowa, where she feels like an outsider Outsider often refers to one identified as on the periphery of social norms, one living or working apart from mainstream society, or one observing a group from the outside, as used in:
  • Outsider Art, created by artists working outside the mainstream art world
 and finds everything too different. Her slow absorption of the language and her eventual knowledge of how to handle a school bully advance her, but when her grandmother falls ill in India, family ties pull her back in Blue Jasmine's striking portrait of two very different cultures and many adjustments. More so than most, Blue Jasmine deftly deft  
adj. deft·er, deft·est
Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.



[Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft.
 depicts not just the challenges, but how different cultures are absorbed.
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Title Annotation:The Fiction Shelf
Publication:Children's Bookwatch
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Aug 1, 2004
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