![]() ![]() Her prose is concise and she often writes in present tense and first person. I see a thread between her beautiful short stories and her current works. ![]() (I tend to be a big fan of short stories- I love J.D. Her short stories still resonate with me as her strongest genre. This collection won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. I loved her storytelling and writing style, so I quickly sought out her short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. The novel focuses on the experience of immigration and existing between two cultures. I cannot remember any of the specifics discussed but I still have my signed copy of the book. I have written about book talks before, and this one was pretty similar. The author came to our campus to give a talk about this book at the conclusion of the community project. The book was part of Danbury, Connecticut’s One Book One Community project in 2008. I first read Lahiri’s debut novel, The Namesake. ![]() To mature is to experience and enhance one’s appreciation as we encounter more things. For example, the idea that having preferences is immature, and being amenable to many things in the harsh re ality of day to day life is the norm. ![]() And perhaps it feels childish to have favorites at all. Maybe because a lot of time must pass in order to establish this label. Yet there’s something that feels almost childlike in speaking about my “favorite” author. She has been my “favorite” since I read her during my time as an undergrad student. Whenever someone asks about my favorite writer, I always talk about Jhumpa Lahiri. ![]()
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