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Title: Utterly Tedious
Review: Yet another couple from Calcutta comes to the US and settles in Cambridge for the husband to finish his PhD in engineering. They birth two children who rebel from their claustrophobic upbringing, yet attend prestigious schools and seek advanced degrees.The characters in Lahiri's stories are almost interchangeable. There's the overbearing parents who feel isolated in their new dwellings who seek comfort by recreating Bengali customs and making friends almost exclusively with people from their homeland. Then there are the kids who don't feel like they belong anywhere. Throw in a plethora of advanced degrees. Couple that with deep seated melancholy, and you'll immediately understand the background of her work.This is a tedious, repetitious and unilluminating book. The author compulsively explains herself, never giving the reader the opportunity to make observations without her guidance.
