Sunday, December 14, 2014

A 40-week Project: VII

Dear child,

How are you? Have you been enjoying your small habitat in my belly?

You have been a popular topic whenever I go these days, no matter it is an academic occasion or a work place. I remember a passage about the heroine's pregnancy in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, in which the heroine, an Indian immigrant who has just settled down in New York, suddenly finds the entire world smiling at her because of her newborn. It didn't make any particular impression on me when I read the episode for the first time; however, it seems to explain exactly what has happened to me these days.