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A Conversation With Jhumpa Lahiri
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, April 10, 2008.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's newest book is called Unaccustomed Earth. The title comes from a quote by Nathanial Hawthorn -- it refers to how one must till new soil to grow new life. The foreign soil here is New England, where Jhumpa Lahiri was planted. But her family - and her characters - are rooted in Bengali Culture.
Jhumpa picks up the themes from her 1999 collection Interpreter of Maladies, and her first novel The Namesake. These are stories of outsiders; children isolated from their school mates by strange customs and food, parents marooned from the communities that raised them.
Most of her new stories are populated by immigrant parents and their American-born children, mostly living in New England. They are discovering America while losing home.
Word of Mouth host Virginia Prescott speaks with Jhumpa Lahiri about the writer's life and work.
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