I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“By now she has learned that her husband likes his food on the salty side, that his favorite thing about lamb curry… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“This was the woman Narasimhan had married, as opposed to whatever girl from Madras his family wanted for him. Subhash wondered how… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“My wife's name was Mala. The marriage had been arranged by my older brother and his wife. I regarded the proposition with… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“You will have a wife, and children of your own, and they will want to be driven to different places at the… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
