Jhumpa Lahiri my idol

Jhumpa Lahiri is probably one of my favorite authors. From her short stories to her novels to her collection of short stories have been peices that I ahve alwyas been able to identify with. I feel she truly captures being an outsider and how it is sometimes extremley difficult to fit in. I attended one of her lectures when I was in highschool and she trully preaches what she writes as well. She spoke a great deal about being a child of an immigrant family and difficulty of balancing both an indian culture and an american naitonality. Her stories always touched me because they deal with everyday issues that people do not realize are truly significant and are issues that need to be brought up and discussed. Hence the part A Choice of Accommodations effected me the same way as well. Being a child of indian parents has created a lot of issues when it comes connecting to them and having them understand the life I live especially when it came to high school. There was an enormous disconnect between what they understood high school to be and what high school in America truly is like. I feel Amit suffered from that same disconnect as well and him marrying a person that was not indian created another chasm between him and his parents. I feel that would be the same for me as well if i chose to marry someone outside my culture. It would create an enormous disconnect and it would definitely cause problems throughout the rest of my life not having my parents there for me which seems apparent in Amits life as well. Yet the most apparent disconnect is between the husband and wife and how their upbringings are creating issues in their marriage now. I feel that would be the same for me because I already see the different views I have on children, school, relationships, family from my boyfriend because of the different cultural upbringings.