Exile and loneliness, uprooting and assimilation, mysteries of identity are again at the heart of the concerns of the heroes of his third book. While in The Interpreter of Disease, she traced the course, often difficult, of the first Indian expatriates in American soil, Jhumpa Lahiri this time chooses to focus on the footsteps of their children. With an art of narrative, an accuracy of tone and an incomparable psychological finesse, the novelist describes the throes of this second generation of migrants, nourished by two cultures but in search of a lost world, constantly confronted with the gap between two civilizations and in the eyes of the other one put on oneself.