Books Like Interpreter of Maladies: Quiet Fiction About Marriage, Family and Belonging
Lahiri's stories find the crisis inside an ordinary marriage, an ordinary dinner, an ordinary move. These books share her restraint and her eye for what goes unsaid.
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1. Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Her second collection: longer stories, adult children, and parents growing older.
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2. A Man's Predicament On this site
by Simran Mehta
Dushyant Kapoor built his life on duty and discipline. A quiet novel about marriage, ambition and an identity assembled from other people's expectations.
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3. Arranged Marriage
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Stories of Indian women at the turning points of marriage, in India and America.
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4. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
A retired judge in the Himalayas and his cook's son in New York. Belonging, and how hard it is.
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5. Swimming Lessons
by Rohinton Mistry
Linked stories from one Bombay apartment block. Small lives, rendered with care.
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6. Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Interlocking stories about a marriage and a town, from a writer as precise as Lahiri.