Everything is there

“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly,…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“If I stop to think about fans, or bestselling, or not bestselling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's…

— Jhumpa Lahiri