Whereabouts.
Whereabouts.
By
:
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Publication Date
:
2021
Subject Term
:
Women -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Solitude -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Summary
:
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the centre wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780735281462
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Clarenville (BCE) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
Gander (GGR) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
Mount Pearl (AMP) R. King | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked In |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews (SJA) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAH | Checked out |