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...single telling detail and the relationships that seem so stable are upended. When Ruma discovers a postcard that her father had written to his lady friend that her son borrowed and attempted to plant in the earth, she gazes again at the hydrangea. She now correctly reads the hydrangea??€™s signification as her father’s attempt to ground his itinerant lifestyle choice, his affirmation of a self that doesn’t fit neatly the prototype of the Indian-American widower: “It did not prove to Ruma that her father had loved...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Worlds Meld in Lahiri's "Earth" | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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