So, I grabbed this one at the library recently, sat down to flip through it, and accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting. Oops. It was originally written in Italian (Lahiri is Indian-American, but on a quest to conquer Italian while living in Italy, which is just the coolest thing) and then translated by someone else (she says she wanted to keep her brain in Italian mode instead of switching back to English to translate it) so you get both side by side. I loved her thoughts on language and identity and the public perception of both, and found this SO interesting. I tweeted a few stellar quotes from this one and had lots of folks asking what book they were from -- if you're at all interested in writing, languages, and culture, this is a great one to grab!