Book Rec of the Day 1/27/2007

“Dazzling.”—USA Today

“A writer of uncommon elegance and poise...”—The New York Times

It is rare for short stories to be so compelling that you feel you have to read them all at once, but Lahiri’s are that good. Her characters are ordinary, but her writing about them is extraordinary. She is so eloquent and so insightful that as soon as you finish these tales about Indian Americans, you’ll be glad to know that her bestselling novel, The Namesake (Mariner Books, 2004), awaits you.

INTERPRETER OF MALADIES, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books, 1999)

Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize.