hell-heaven

“Pranab Chakraborty wasn’t technically my father’s younger brother. He was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the barren shores of my parents’ social life in the early seventies, when they lived in a rented apartment in Central Square and could number their acquaintances on one hand. But I had no real uncles in America, and so I was taught to call him Pranab Kaku…”

– Jhumpa Lahiri

“Hell-Heaven” is by the beautiful and brilliant Jhumpa Lahiri (best selling authoress who won the Pulitzer for her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies). It appears in Unaccustomed Earth and is currently being offered for free by DailyLit, a sometimes favourite of mine.