Whereabouts

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By Jhumpa Lahiri

Published Feb. 22, 2021

Whereabouts (Knopf), a novel by creative writing professor Jhumpa Lahiri, focuses on a woman’s solitude after her father’s death. Her unease leads to a transformation that unfolds over a year, until one fateful day when her perspective changes. This is Lahiri’s first novel written in Italian and translated into English.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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