RaveBrooklyn RailLahiri builds on her exacting, minimalistic prose that characterizes her English language work as a means to explore language itself—as she and her characters theorize what it means to belong to a language, to belong to the geography that shapes and makes a language ... Simultaneously delivers precision and abundance in lyric short stories that all meditate on how we build our geographies through language ... Lahiri engages with what a national literature means through a canonical writer in an exophonic language, aware always that she is mediated differently in Italian than in English ... A testament to Lahiri’s commitment to thinking through what it means to belong to a language; the characters in these stories are all immigrants, all with complicated, shaky, tenuous relationships to home, but in Lahiri’s Italian, they all find home.
