She. Am, she wrote about home comings to places that don't exist any more. One of the things that a, also really struck me, am, was at the end of her life, she was almost blind. She would just sort of write a couple of words, a sentence or two a day,. And one of them says, am in italian, it says, la mia cecita eum punto di vista - which means, my blindness is a point of view and a.
Author, teacher, and translator Jhumpa Lahiri joins Tyler for a conversation on identity, Rhode Island, writing as problem solving, reading across languages, the badness of book covers, Elena Ferrante, Bengali culture, the magic of Calcutta, Italian authors, Indian classical music, architectural influences, and much more.
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