“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.”

—  Jhumpa Lahiri, book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

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Short story writer, novelist 1967

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