October 2008

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Two Worlds

Sunday, October 05, 2008

"It is clear to me know that my mother was in love with him...He brought to my mother the first, and, I suspect, the only pure happiness she ever felt. I don’t think even my birth made her as happy. I was evidence of my marriage to my father, an assumed consequence of the life she had been raised to lead. But Pranab Kaku was different. He was the one totally unanticipated pleasure in her life.”
--Jhumpa Lahiri, “Hell-Heaven”

The Pulitzer Prize-winner contemplates marriage and love among Indian expatriates in America.