Interpreter of maladies : stories
(Large Print)

This collection of short stories features characters navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world. The characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.