{"id":1086,"date":"2009-07-08T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/hell-heaven\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:50:49","slug":"hell-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/hell-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"hell-heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pranab Chakraborty wasn\u2019t technically my father\u2019s younger brother. He was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the barren shores of my parents\u2019 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&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jhumpa Lahiri<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jhumpa-lahiri-unaccustomed-earth.jpg' alt='Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hell-Heaven&#8221; 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  <strong>Unaccustomed Earth <\/strong> and is currently being offered for free by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylit.com\/books\/hell-heaven\/1\"target=_blank>DailyLit<\/a>, a sometimes favourite of mine. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pranab Chakraborty wasn\u2019t technically my father\u2019s younger brother. He was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the barren shores of my parents\u2019 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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}