Whereabouts
INTERNATIONAL and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A captivating novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade.
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. Lahiri’s narrator, a woman questioning her place in the world, wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor—traversing the streets around her house and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone.
We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that leads to her mother,…