Jhumpa Lahiri

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Letters provide key turning points in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake. Growing up in New England, the author remembers how letters served as a lifeline to her family back in Calcutta. Writing letters was an important ritual – and receiving them was always an event.

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