[Girl Crush] Jhumpa Lahiri

1. Her writing is beautiful and vivid. Her characters are always well-developed. And her stories always make me tear up or get angry. Yeah, I admit it! I'm an emotional reader! My favorite book of hers right now is the short story collection Unaccustomed Earth because it's so varied, but The Namesake is a beautiful novel about love and growing older as a second-generation Indian-American. 

2. Her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer in 1999. You go, girl.

3. She struggled with her cultural identity and then came to own it. 

"I always felt so embarrassed by my name.... You feel like you're causing someone pain just by being who you are."

4. She's beautiful and talented? What a gold mine.

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