Today's excerpt. on onions, pregnancy and being a foreigner.
I came across this excerpt and felt the need to share.... It spoke volumes...beyond the interesting rice krispies mix! The expression of this insight on life in 3 sentences was a feat.
This insight on life expressed in 3 sentences is a feat.
“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy — a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
I came across this excerpt and felt the need to share. It spoke volumes beyond the interesting Rice Krispies mix!
These are a few sentences that simply stayed...
