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Why We Write

June 17, 2011 by Ken

Jhumpa Lahiri says what I feel, but did not know how to express:

My parents’ refusal to let go or to belong fully to either place is at the heart of what I, in a less literal way, try to accomplish in writing. Born of my inability to belong, it is my refusal to let go.

I heard her read once in Cambridge. I’m so glad I went.

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