![]() ![]() ![]() Ambition and accomplishment are givens in these families, where it’s understood that nothing less than attending a top-flight school and entering an honored profession (medicine, law, academics) will satisfy. Their offspring, who are generally the protagonists of these stories, are typically more Americanized, adopting a value system that would scandalize their parents, who are usually oblivious to the college lives their sons and daughters lead. ![]() The parents feel a tension between the culture they’ve left behind (though to which they frequently return) and the adopted homeland where they always feel at least a little foreign. Each of these eight stories, most on the longish side, a few previously published in magazines, concerns the assimilation of Bengali characters into American society. The London-born, American-raised author of Indian descent returns with some of her most compelling fiction to date. Lahiri ( The Namesake, 2003, etc.) extends her mastery of the short-story format in a collection that has a novel’s thematic cohesion, narrative momentum and depth of character. ![]()
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