Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel The Lowland explores the immigrant experience of transitioning from South Asian culture to a very different culture in the United States. Writing for Saoln, Daniel D’Addario calls it a “culmination of a career-long examination of dislocation.”
Of her own experience with dislocation and identity, she tells Salon:
I think in my crucial years of development, it was very clear that I wasn’t an American, because I wasn’t treated as one, and I was raised not to be one, so it was a very charged situation.
