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It’s time for a classic! Specifically, Jhumpa Lahiri’s breakout short story collection from 1999: a set of tales that has sold over 15 million copies, that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and that has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Still, the most impressive part? These nine stories so succinctly capture a shared yet solitary quality of immigrant life in America—the pressure to be, as Lahiri describes it, “loyal to the old world and fluent in the new.”
- Blurb by Sarah @readingbrb / Recommended by Tess