"LeAvE iT tO Me"

"Leave it to me" is a novel written by Bharati Mukerjee. Topics such as multiculturalism, adoption, seek for identity, hippie movement, Hinduism, ... are developed in the novel.
Clear Water Iris Daughter, Faustine, Debbi di Martino and Devi Dee are the names the protagonist has had in her span life, each name assigned by a different person and the last one by herself.
Devi Dee is a girl in her twenties trying to find out who her bio-parents are. She was raised in an Italian-American family that adopted her at age of two. After high school she leaves New York city and moves to San Francisco in order to track her parents.
Once in San Francisco, she assumes a hippie lifestyle, lives in her car, lives for the day, uses drugs and has sex without major prejudices. She finds her bio-mother and bio-father. She, American and he, Indian. She has been a hippie, and he has been a serial killer.

The novel presents features of Hinduism and Easter beliefs througout the novel and there is an explicit analogy between Devi de goddess and Devi the main character of the novel.
"Leave it to me" is a contemporary novel, not only because of its date of publication but also because of the topics mentioned there.