” I’ve inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. “
” This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did… used to come to my parents’ house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don’t have any memories of this gentleman. “
” I don’t know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents’ marriage. And it’s interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. “
” It didn’t matter that I wore clothes from Sears, I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. “
All 4 Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes about Parents in picture
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