"He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born."

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About Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an author known for fiction and essays exploring migration, identity, and language. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies.

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