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Jhumpa Lahiri decides to move to Rome with her family, for 'a trial by fire, a sort of baptism' into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write, initially in her journal, solely in Italian. Lahiri investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
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