![]() She attended Boston University for her MFA, and then received a seven-month fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown. And I knew that my survival as a person, as a human being, depended on writing.” We are animals, and we’re built to survive. I was so afraid to open up that box again, and go inside there, and yet I knew that it was the one place where I had to be in order to survive, to live this life. ![]() I was just searching for that thing, that place, that kept me sane and kept me whole.” When describing herself as a young adult, she says, “I felt so lost. But it wasn’t always so easy, or straightforward. At a young age, she began reading and writing, and a new connection to the world opened up through the words she found and placed on the page. Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging. ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri, for enlarging the human story. ![]()
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