JHUMPA LAHIRI
Monday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY and the SOUTH ASIA CENTER, JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Making this most welcome Seattle return one year after her novel The Namesake was a "Seattle Reads" selection, Jhumpa Lahiri reads this evening from her eagerly awaited new collection of stories, Unaccustomed Earth (Knopf). Coming five years after The Namesake and her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, The Interpreter of Maladies before that, this book is testament to Jhumpa Lahiri's place as one of the foremost fiction writers at work today. "Stunning ... The gulf that separates expatriate Bengali parents from their American-raised children—and that separates the children from India—remains Lahiri's subject for this follow-up ... In the title story, Brooklyn-to-Seattle transplant Ruma frets about a presumed obligation to bring her widower father into her home ... An inchoate grief for mothers lost at different stages of life enters many tales and, as the book progresses, takes on enormous resonance. Lahiri's stories of exile, identity, disappointment and maturation evince a spare and subtle mastery that has few contemporary equals." - Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. For more information, please see www.spl.org, or call (206) 386-4636 or call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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