A review by roseleaf24
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

4.0

This is not exactly memoir, more like a collection of essays about Lahiri's journey with the Italian language. I listened to the audio version, read by Lahiri, though she was reading a translator's version of her words, which was fascinating to me. She wrote it in Italian, but a translator did the English translation, so that Lahiri would not be tempted to fix or change what she had said in Italian when writing in her dominant language. This is not a linear collection of essays, but a series of thoughts about language and writing. I really enjoyed it and found the layers of thought that she shares here easy to relate to, even though I have always written and spoken in my native language.