As of 2020, Jhumpa Lahiri is married to Alberto Vourvoulias. But she’s spending the summer in a nearby town, helping out an elderly gentleman who’s also on vacation, so I have to do it. She says that the people here aren’t nice, that they’re closed. He doesn’t have a family. Before heading out, the mother shows me the stuff in the fridge that they don’t want to take back to the city. Pictures the girls drew, shells they picked up at the beach, the last drops of a perfumed shower gel. She tells me that she’s grown quite fond of this house, that she already misses it. He shows the girls the small plum trees, the fig trees, the olives. The girls in this family resemble each other. Guests are free to pick lettuce and tomatoes, I add. The next day the crickets die, suffocated in the jar, and the girls cry. It also marked the first man landed on the moon. She was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama. His eyes are agitated when he looks at me. She writes by hand, in a little notebook resting on her thighs. Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. My father and I eat inside, in silence. Friends of the parents have been invited along with their children, who run around on the meadow. My mother used to help. Jhumpa Lahiri was born on the 11th of July, 1967 (Generation X). The mother isn’t interested. She has not been previously engaged. Like many celebrities and famous people, Jhumpa keeps her love life private. My father sold flowers in that very piazza. I wish the family safe travels and say goodbye. According to our records, she has 2 children. He doesn’t look up when he eats. At least once a day she hangs up the laundry. She was born in London to Indian immigrant parents; but spent her childhood in the United States. At breakfast they say that they’d like to come back next year. She’s the one who talks at meals. But then I notice, through the sliding door, that the girls are already awake. As usual, there are four of them: mother, father, two daughters. The father keeps taking pictures with his cell phone. The couple started dating in 2000. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Shopping lists in the faint, small script that the mother used, on other sheets of paper, to write all about us. Her notable books included the short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and the novels The Namesake and The Lowland. To revisit this article, select My⁠ ⁠Account, then View saved stories. They are lodged in between the two big well-known generations, the Baby Boomers and the Millennials.