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Interpreter of Maladies
May 2021: Short Stories
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This was a wonderful book. I really enjoyed all the stories. It gave
such wonderful insight into a culture that I am unfamiliar with, with very charming, unique characters.
All nine stories convey in a highly multifaceted manner, the lives of Bengalis, their children, and their grandchildren who have turned, in varying degrees, American. In two stories, the region of Bengal dominates to the point of being portrayed with no reference to the United States. But the other tales are about immigrants whose roots have thinned, whose children have grown American.
I gave it four stars.
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