E-83: The Namesake

What are books meant for? To travel without moving an inch. Do you agree? I am sure you do, that is the magic of fiction to take you places which are untouched, unexplored and beyond your imagination.And among the many journeys literature offers, few are as intimate and universal as the search for identity and belonging.About the author:Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Her debut, internationally-bestselling collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, The New Yorker Debut of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was translated into twenty-nine languages. Her first novel, The Namesake, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.Listen to the full episode to know about the book.Subscribe to my Youtube: prickedinsightFollow on Instagram: prickedinsight