Summary:
Rakhi is a single mother and struggling artist living in Berkeley, California. She has longed to "inherit" her mother's gift of interpreting dreams, and would love to know more about her Indian heritage. But she has enough trouble keeping her tea shop afloat after a "JAVA" supercafe moves in across the street, dealing with her ex-husband and struggling with her "artist's block." After a mysterious car accident claims her mother's life, Rakhi, with her father's help, sets out to decipher Mrs. Gupta's dream journals in hopes of unlocking the secrets of her peculiar double life. Meanwhile, September 11 disrupts Rakhi's search for identity, and a vicious attack on her friends and family makes her question how she can have such a strong sense of herself as an American citizen, but others question it based on her ethnicity and appearance

I would recommend this book!

Why?
Publishers Weekly calls Queen of Dreams a "cleverly imagined tale of love, forgiveness and new beginnings." Even secondary characters become real, and their relationships are messy and believable. Divakaruni is one of my favorite authors, and as always she does a good job working current issues around fully developed characters. And the language is so rich!