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.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri
   
Jhumpa Lahiri   Name:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Type:
Author
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 11, 1967
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