![]() ![]() ![]() As someone who is a complete outsider, it’s fascinating. In each case, Lahiri’s portraits sketch out different possibilities for life within these interconnected but different subcultures. Some are immigrants to the States, others were born there and are learning about or ignorant of their heritage. Some of the main characters are poor, marginalized, or reviled. Beyond these general similarities, there is a great deal of variety. That, and although I did enjoy these stories, and I think a short story collection was actually the right choice to read at this time, maybe these particular stories weren’t quite what I wanted.Īs with most of Lahiri’s work, these stories are very focused looks at the lives of people living in India or members of the Indian diaspora in the US. ![]() ![]() So if I seem underwhelmed by these compared to the praise I’ve sung of her work in the past, it’s probably because her talents have only grown since she wrote these. I have long enjoyed Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction, and here I am reading her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Sometimes we end up reading an author backwards, like Merlins travelling through literary space-time, always encountering younger, less experienced versions of the writer. ![]()
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