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Title: Fourth Grade Level Reading; review by a Univ Prof.
Review: Without a plot, Lahiri's first novel seems to depend entirely on our interest in some rather dated cultural differences, more relevant to the 1960s than to today. And even these are rendered without much flare or uniqueness. As with too many recent writers of mixed background, this work is almost entirely a descriptive narrative of how one culture sees another. Although here, the vision is rather nearsighted than in depth. This may be another harbinger of dwindling interest in literature about ethnicity for ethnicity's sake alone; it can be added to an unfortunate range of such works that do nothing more than state the obvious. Grade school teachers might find this book of use, and indeed the protagonist rarely seems to get beyond a grade school level psychology. I would look elsewhere for subcontinent American fiction.
