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Jhumpa Lahiri: Who isn t on the outside? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Italy, immigration and why she thinks identity is a trap. “I think identity is many things, but I think one of the things it is is a trap,” said Jhumpa Lahiri. “Thinking too much about it traps us in ways that are dangerous and limiting.” For much of the past two decades, I might not have expected to hear those sentences from this author. Lahiri’s 1999 debut, Interpreter of Maladies, a dazzling collection of short stories focused on the lives of Indians and Indian Americans, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was followed by her 2003 novel ....