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Jhumpa Lahiri Research Paper

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Journalist Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, England in 1967 to Native American parents. Subsequently, at the age of two, Lahiri and her parents relocated to the State of Rhode Island, United States. As Jhumpa became introduced to the American culture, both worlds she knew, India and U.S, began to collide. She often felt misplaced in society. Lahiri did not feel she met the standards of neither her heritage descendant nor her recently adopted American culture. As a result, Jhumpa lived the majority of her life walking and living in broken egg shells. She dwelled in a duo identity one which she displayed at home eating Indian traditional foods with her bare hands, and the other she nurtured in her new world exhibiting excellence in English
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