Vaporous Shapes: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Whereabouts’
Tim Parks, 1 July 2021
Jhumpa Lahiri made her name with two collections of stories – Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008) – in which a range of characters negotiate the kinds of tension that Lahiri herself may have experienced growing up in New England as the daughter of Bengali immigrants. Families are torn between different cultures and languages, children divide their...