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What Lahiri does so well is describe a character's surroundings. She chooses to describe them from the POV of a character who is disoriented in a new place, a recent immigrant, or an immigrant returning to the home he knew a long time ago. She uses this to accentuate change and dissonance, and she does it very well.

But he was no longer in tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had steps so many mornings out of dreams it's reality and it's particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day. The difference was so extreme that he could not accommodate the two places together in his mind in this enormous new country there seem to be nowhere for the old to reside there was nothing to link them. He was the sole link.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men