A Note on the Author

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, The New Yorker Debut of the Year, and an Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. Her first novel The Namesake, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Her second collection, Unaccustomed Earth, was a New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, and People Magazine Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Story Prize, and winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her most recent book is her second novel, The Lowland (published September 2013).

A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

Also by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Interpreter of Maladies

Unaccustomed Earth

The Lowland

Also available in this series:

Only Goodness by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lie by T. C. Boyle

Finest Wife by Elizabeth Gilbert

Homesick by Roshi Fernando

The Mathematics of Friedrich Gauss by D. W. Wilson

Home by George Saunders

Of Mothers and Little People by Lucy Wood

Demons by Rajesh Parameswaran

Which Reminded Her, Later by Jon McGregor

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This story originally appeared in Unaccustomed Earth, published by Bloomsbury Publishing 2008

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