Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously…

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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in…

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“She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.”

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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple…

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“Be sure to keep my ruby choker and the pearl and emerald set for the person you will marry,” she said during…

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“Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to…

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I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to…

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“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”

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He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the…

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Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his…

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