Tapestry | Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri

Brotherly Love

Featured in The New Yorker

East of the Tolly Club, after Deshapran Sashmal Road splits in two, there is a small mosque. A turn leads to a quiet enclave. A warren of narrow lanes and modest middle-class homes.


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Featured in New York Times Books

The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M.


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Featured in Mother McAuley

In the Autumn of 1971 a man used to come to our house, bearing confections in his pocket and hopes of ascertaining the life or death of his family.


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Featured in The Atlantic

In Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of eight short stories, Lahiri continues to explore this theme, this time with a focus on the lives of second-generation immigrants who must navigate both the traditional values of their immigrant parents and the mainstream American values of their peers.


Nobody's Business

Featured in The New Yorker

It was a wife's worst nightmare. After nine years of marriage, Laxmi told Miranda, her cousin's husband had fallen in love with another woman.


Once in a Lifetime

Featured in The New Yorker

I had seen you before, too many times to count, but a farewell that my family threw for yours, at our house in Inman Square, is when I begin to recall your presence in my life.


Year's End

Featured in The New Yorker

I did not attend my father’s wedding. I did not even know there had been a wedding until my father called early one Sunday during my final year at Swarthmore.


Teach Yourself Italian

Featured in The New Yorker

My relationship with Italian takes place in exile, in a state of separation.


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