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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Jhumpa Lahiri's This Blessed House. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Palazzos. In 1997, Lahiri earned her PhD from Boston University. Her dissertation was on Italian palazzos in plays written during the Renaissance, which shows her early interest in transcultural connections and the significance of place.
Immersion. In 2012, Lahiri committed herself to learning Italian through immersion. She stopped reading in English and moved her family to Rome. Since then, she has published multiple books in Italian that are stylistically more daring than her English writing.