In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. It was made into a movie, which I have not seen yet.From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories-longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written-that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. It was just as good as her short stories, and like her short stories, examines first-generation Indian-Americans and their struggles combining their parents' way of life with their peers. "Lahiri's stories show the diasporic struggle to keep hold of culture as characters create new lives in foreign cultures." ( source) Lahiri also wrote a full-length novel, The Namesake, which is the same storyline as her short stories (Bengali immigrants in America) but expanded. Both Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth highlight the difficulties many first generation immigrants have, bridging the cultural gap between America and India. Which I think is incredible, and hope to emulate in my own short story writing. What takes full-length novels at least a quarter of the book to get the reader attached to the protagonist, it takes Lahiri two or three pages. I think it is because of the way Lahiri emotionally gets her point across in a story in such a short period of time.
Obviously, these two books are both highly acclaimed works of fiction. Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 and Unaccustomed Earth: Stories was the New York Times' Book Review best book of the year in 2008.
The stories are so perfect in total there are 17 stories and each is as good as the one before it. They are both composed of short stories that focus on family with many topics from marital difficulties, children, cultural differences, arranged marriages. Two novels by Jhumpa Lahiri that focus on Indian-American families.
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