Jhumpa Lahiri

[wingster55]

I've read both her novels (and only one of her short stories), and really enjoyed them both. The Lowland was a bit depressing at times though.

 

Anyone else?

[halgia]

I haven't read The Lowland yet, but I've read The Namesake and both the short story collections. I really like them, but in the second collection in particular I felt like she could have expanded her range a bit: IIRC, there was one narrator in the collection who wasn't an affluent Bengali-American who went to an Ivy League school and probably was an alcoholic academic, and that one was an affluent Bengali-American who went to Swarthmore and was an alcoholic. That said, within that limited world she's got everything down pat.

[wingster55]

She does limit herself to the Bengali-American "theme", but as a first generation Indian born in America I can relate to it which may help me appreciate it better.

[moonb]

The Namesake is by far my favorite of the three of her works I've read. I haven't read The Lowland yet, however.