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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Adult relationships and one significant sexual encounter
Substance Use
None
Brief social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Explores displacement, marriage, loss, and the interior distance between people who share a space
What this book is about
Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut collection follows Indians and Indian-Americans navigating the space between cultures. The nine stories range from a guide interpreting for a disintegrating marriage to a woman haunted by loss in India to a couple slowly growing apart in an American suburb — all rendered with Lahiri's exquisite, understated prose.
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Adult sexual content in one story
Themes of marital alienation and loss
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