As succeeding generations become increasingly assimilated into American culture and are comfortable in constructing perspectives outside of their country of origin, Lahiri's fiction shifts to the needs of the individual.
後の世代がますますアメリカ文化への同化を遂げ、父祖の地の外側に築かれた視点に安住するようになるにつれて、ラヒリの小説は個人の欲求へ焦点を移してゆく。