Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍❤️‍👨

likeas 9 mini-episodes of Love, Sex, and Robots on Netflix but more like 9 short novels of Love, Marriage, and Life

Best to: know that the book title is an extremely poor indicator of what the book is really about; the book encompass 9 types of mature marriages and ties each of the 9 stories to Calcutta India 🇮🇳

Best as: a nice literary take on arranged marriage, affairs, divorces, lust, and falling out of love; and ending every piece on a cliffhanger for the readers to imagine on on their own

Best for: short novel readers

Best quote: “Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”