"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The spare, elegant stories in this collection — Lahiri's first book, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 — are by turns funny, sexy, and heartbreaking. Most are set in Cambridge and Boston and chronicle the struggles with love, loss, and assimilation faced by Indian American characters.
America's Athens shrugged
Hundreds of cities have embraced a program that celebrates reading and books, but Boston, a hotbed of literacy and culture, remains surprisingly cool to it. Why?
(Sam Allis, Globe Staff)
(Sam Allis, Globe Staff)