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Literary Fiction · 2021 · PG

Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri

A woman walks the streets of her city and reflects — a year of quiet solitude.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. “Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that s

For10+GenreLiterary FictionLength176 pagesRead time~4.5 hours

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Violence

None

No violence

Language

None

No profanity

Sexual Content

None

Brief adult content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of solitude, middle age, and the feeling of never quite belonging anywhere

What this book is about

Lahiri's 2021 novel, originally written in Italian, follows an unnamed woman through the seasons of a year in an unnamed Italian city. Meditation on aloneness, aging, and the foreignness of one's own life. Very quiet and literary. For older teens and adults.

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