Bharati Mukherjee, an American writer of Indian origin, is different from other diasporic writers in her conception of the term 'immigration'. In her novel, Desirable Daughters, she highlights her view that immigration sets platform for the immigrants to redefine their identities and also insists on the need to accept the new cultural milieu. Tara, the narrator and central protagonist of the novel, happily immigrates to America, assimilates superficially into the alien society and becomes a self-assertive individual. A crisis in her life necessitates finding her true identity. To reconstruct her identity, she visits India, her homeland where she retrieves her past and thereby emerges with a new identity