“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of… — 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… — 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… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“She asked her parents to buy him the books she’d been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“She’d told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“The next time she visits her father she’ll speak to him in English. Were her mother ever to stand before her, even… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“But you don’t wear an engagement ring.” “I don’t have one.” He studied the bangle, turning it slowly around. “What kind of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Of the three women in Subhash’s life—his mother, Gauri, Bela—there remained only one. His mother’s mind was now a wilderness. There was… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Kaushik, what about a picture?” my father suggested. I shook my head. I had left my camera, my father’s old Yashica, at… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself… — 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
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby’s birth, like most everything else in America,… — 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
“Is that what you think of when you think of me?" Gogol asks him. "Do I remind you of that night"? "Not… — 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
