" Across The Dusty Path" is a fiction story about young women's life experience of immigrating to a new country, the culture shock, the social and financial adjustment. The characters in the story go through big challenges and adjustments in a new country but in the end win their battles. A story that will win any one's heart. Many families described in the book emmigrated from India to Canada Each family's struggle is different from the other. These families are the products of mixed cultures. The younger generation have to make adjustments with their peer's cultures and their parents cultures which gives birth to an immigrant's culture The book takes the readers through the social plight of village women, the marriage system and dowry problems. It also takes the reader through the colorful crowded cities and some of the most scenic views of mountain cities of India, Canada, The United States, Australia and New Zealand.