Word: lahiri
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With a Pulitzer Prize, international sex appeal and a national tour to pump her new novel, Jhumpa Lahiri has gotten used to seeing her name in the limelight. Her award-winning debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, catapulted this one-time Cambridge resident into literary stardom, and not surprisingly, generated no small amount of buzz among a First Parish Church crowd last week...
When asked about the origins of the novel, Lahiri said that it began with the name. A neighborhood boy in Calcutta, whom she had never actually met, was named Gogol, and she “filed [it] away” in her mind...
...acclaim and acceptance in the literary world Lahiri has garnered, her presence seems to belie it. After being introduced by Wordsworth Books’ William Corbett, Lahiri walked onstage with the quiet poise that is so common in her writing. Before reading an excerpt from Namesake, she commented on her own experience in Cambridge so many years...
Though most of the novel takes place in New York, Lahiri noted that it was “born in an apartment on Comm. Ave.” Many of the stories in Maladies also involve Indian-Americans living in Cambridge...
When asked if her own name was difficult to cope with and whether she had “found” her own identity, Lahiri said that she didn’t think identity could ever be found, but that her own two worlds were not always compatible. In her opinion, her two worlds don’t always “sit side by side smoothly,” and in this respect, much of the novel draws upon her own experiences as the daughter of Indian immigrants...