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Title: a stranger in a strange land
Review: I'm a first-generation American myself, and found I could relate so strongly to the situations and choices confronting the characters in Lahiri's little gem of a novel. She captures well the subtle--but not painless--shifts a family makes over the years as it moves toward assimilation.And she does so in a thousand ways. One of the images that has stayed with me long after I read the book is in the opening scene, of the pregnant young women trying to concoct from incredients she bought in a US supermarket a spicy snack she had enjoyed in Indian that was sold on the streets of Calcutta.It's the accumulation of these small details that makes this novel ring so true. All of us have felt some sort of cultural disconnect at some point in our lives. So it is very easy to identify with Lahiri's characters.I'm eagerly waiting for more titles from this author.
