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Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Book of the Day, NPR · April 8, 2022

Maud Newton and Jhumpa Lahiri interrogate one's place in the world

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A novel about a sense of place in which the setting is deliberately left unnamed, reflecting the author's view that we can be too fixated on who we are and where we come from — with the anonymity offering a sense of freedom.

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