Wife; by Bharati Mukherjee.

About a young woman who marries and relocates to another part of the world, and is dizzy with the new and strange surroundings with all the anchors left behind - friends, parents, her own home and country and culture - like a child just experiencing a roller coaster ride.

Applicable to more than just this one character and in fact to a whole lot of women that go through it, and have always done, to follow their men to other shores and across the lands, in the last few hundred years. One could say, forever, but travel was slow before that and relocating to another part of the globe faraway was a phenomena that began only with the whole sale migration to the continents across Atlantic.

I have not said "with Columbus's discovery of America" because both parts of the phrase are in fact inaccurate.

Not only all sorts of people knew of those continents and were not only living there but had a superior civilisation, even people of Europe knew and were not only trading and fishing (look at the globe, and how close the continent is to Greenland and how close that is to Iceland, and that to northern British isles and Scandinavia) - but in fact Vikings (or people by another name from that part of the world) were living as far south as Massachusetts, for a few centuries.

And besides, "America" was the name given, not the continent discovered; the land, the continents probably had a name that the native Americans called it by, and was wiped out by Europe.

So migration is a complex phenomena, from antiquity to this story, affecting lives.