Whereabouts (Vintage Contemporaries)

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade—about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.

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176 pages

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Zoe E.
Feb 07, 2022
7/10 stars
A considerable change of pace from Lahiri’s other work I’ve read. Very little plot (even compared to many of her short stories, which can pack a punch). Instead, quick sketches of place and mood. This is a book like a butterfly, flitting from branch to branch, refusing to be pinned down. I thought some of the writing beautiful and evocative (reading it, some parts called to mind Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels in their cadence - I then found Lahiri wrote this in Italian and translated into English after), but I can understand why it might not be to everyone’s taste

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