Book Of The Month:
Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer-winning collection of nine stories about Indian immigrants and their children caught between two worlds. In spare, quiet prose, her characters suffer maladies no doctor can name — homesickness, marriages gone silent, secrets confessed to strangers. There's rarely resolution, just brief moments of recognition. The final story lands the theme: displacement not as catastrophe, but as the quiet, astonishing work of learning to belong.
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Laura Bray
Laura is a voracious reader and prolific writer who loves the smell of books, learning about literature, and sharing the art of reading. She is the self-appointed librarian on her Substack, The Cozy Library, and shares her memoir essays and book recommendations there. She is the leader and host of Modern Prairie’s Prairie Pages, a virtual book club founded on the premise that community, friendship, and self-discovery can be found in books and talking about them.
Each month, Laura does a themed column for the Book-of-the-Month!
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