They spend a few weekends taking the shuttle bus to Ikea and filling up the rooms: imitation Noguchi lamps, a black sectional sofa, kilim and flokati carpets, a blond wood platform bed. Both her parents and Ashima are at once impressed and puzzled when they come to visit for the first time. Isn’t it a bit small, now that they are married? But Gogol and Moushumi aren’t thinking of children at the moment, certainly not until Moushumi finishes her dissertation.
Visiting parents as a married couple
