story: The Third and Final Continent
author: Jhumpa Lahiri
year: 2000
where: Art House Café
note: Lahiri, a reread, and my fellow Italian language lover
a line: “I was told that she could cook, knit, embroider, sketch landscapes, and recite poems by Tagore, but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a fair complexion, and so a string of men had rejected her to her face.”
samantha Neugebauer 