So one of the books I read was "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a collection of nine short stories... and it also happened to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. But that's not why I picked it. The reason I selected it was because we read one of her short stories (which is in a different collection of short stories) in English class and really loved it, and I felt the same way about this. The stories, while all very different, are about Bengali Indian-Americans and the way their nationality has affected them. All nine stories are heavily influenced by food and family.
Lahiri, who immigrated to America at the age of 1, is extremely well educated. She grew up in Rhode Island, and most of her fiction is autobiographical, laced with the experiences she's had. She went to college forever: she got her BA in English, and has three masters degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Literature, as well as a PhD in Renaissance Studies.
The other books she's published, one novel and one other collection of short stories, have also been very sucessful.
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