Jhumpa Lahiri : (4)

" I write to feel alone. " - Jhumpa Lahiri

" I don’t know Bengali perfectly. I don’t know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I’ve always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language. " - Jhumpa Lahiri

" I’m from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus – on the margins of that, actually. " - Jhumpa Lahiri

" You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I’ve realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn’t feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense. " - Jhumpa Lahiri