Recommendations, please!

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 

I'm just finishing Interpreter of Maladies. My favorite story is the one about Mrs. Sen. I'm very sympathetic to the Indian woman who has left her home to come to America with her husband, who gets a job in a university. It seems like such an ideal life, but in reality it's pretty awful.

I've read lots of stories like this one. I know a lot of Indian children at my school had mothers like these women. It must have been so difficult for them to leave India.

What was your favorite story in the book?

Can't rememember any of the stories specifically (must re-read those stories, as I loved them) but if you enjoyed Interpreter of Maladies you would probably enjoy her novel, The Namesake. I really enjoyed that book.

Ooops...just saw you already read it. That's what I get for posting without reading!

... The Namesake. I really enjoyed that book.

Yes, I read the book and saw the movie immediately after. I loved them both! The book obviously went into a lot more detail, but the movie was very tastefully done.

Any other suggestions along these lines?

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud. A British woman, with two young daughters in tow, tries to find the meaning of life in Morocco. Also made into a movie which stars Kate Winslet.

Along the lines of this thread, I just finished Minaret by Leila Aboulela. It's set in Khartoum and London.

Has anyone read it? If so, what did you think of it?

If you liked Interpreter of Maladies, I really recommend Arranged Marriage I mentioned earlier. It's also a collection of short stories and it's one of my favorite books. If you liked that, one of the stories was later expanded into a full-length novel.

I'm just finishing Interpreter of Maladies.

To add to this thread: I just finished reading The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay. It is similar to Interpreter of Maladies in that it's all short stories. However, they're all set in Nepal.

It was an excellent book and I loved it even more than Interpreter of Maladies.

To add to this thread: I just finished reading The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay. It is similar to Interpreter of Maladies in that it's all short stories. However, they're all set in Nepal.

It was an excellent book and I loved it even more than Interpreter of Maladies.

I'll pick it up then, cause I really loved Interpreter of Maladies.

If you liked Interpreter of Maladies, I really recommend Arranged Marriage I mentioned earlier. It's also a collection of short stories and it's one of my favorite books. If you liked that, one of the stories was later expanded into a full-length novel.

I'll pick it up then, cause I really loved Interpreter of Maladies.

Great! Let me know what you think when you've finished it.

And I'm off to get Arranged Marriages to read next.