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Beautiful people,
My Monday’s hero is author Jhumpa Lahiri who was born in London to an immigrant family from India. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was three.
Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, was released in 1999. Her stories focus on the dilemmas in the lives of Indian immigrants. The book sold 600,000 copies and received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Namesake, Lahiri’s first novel was published in 2003, and is focused on the constant generational and cultural gap between immigrants and their American born children. Much of Lahiri’s work deals with large themes like family, duty, freedom, and the immigrant experience in America— themes, with which I have much in common.
Jhumpa’s stories allow us to feel what it is like to be an immigrant. What it is like to think, behave, believe, dress, and talk differently from everyone else. Her stories make a great contribution to our society by creating awareness and bridging the cultural gap.
Her newest book “In Other Words” was published a couple of weeks ago. It is an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language—again, a subject with which I’m very familiar. I cannot wait reading it!
Jhumpa Lahiri - You are such an inspiration to me!
XO,
Sharon
My Monday’s hero is author Jhumpa Lahiri who was born in London to an immigrant family from India. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was three.
Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, was released in 1999. Her stories focus on the dilemmas in the lives of Indian immigrants. The book sold 600,000 copies and received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Namesake, Lahiri’s first novel was published in 2003, and is focused on the constant generational and cultural gap between immigrants and their American born children. Much of Lahiri’s work deals with large themes like family, duty, freedom, and the immigrant experience in America— themes, with which I have much in common.
Jhumpa’s stories allow us to feel what it is like to be an immigrant. What it is like to think, behave, believe, dress, and talk differently from everyone else. Her stories make a great contribution to our society by creating awareness and bridging the cultural gap.
Her newest book “In Other Words” was published a couple of weeks ago. It is an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language—again, a subject with which I’m very familiar. I cannot wait reading it!
Jhumpa Lahiri - You are such an inspiration to me!
XO,
Sharon
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