What a quick read. I bought this book eight hours ago at a used book sale and I sure haven’t spent the entire past eight hours reading it. I may have spent four hours total reading this book – that’s probably a generous estimate. This might be the record holder for Book Most Quickly Finished By Stacey Since About Middle School. I would say it almost wasn’t worth me buying it, but then again, I bought it at a used book sale for 50 euro cents, so I won’t say that.

Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of short stories about Indian people in various circumstances and situations. Very good short story writing. I found each of the stories to be kind of sad in their own way, but not depressing enough to make me stop reading or anything. I also thought that each story had some wonderful character development. Lahiri is definitely a talented writer. Anyone who enjoys good short story writing will definitely enjoy this book.