Mr. Pizada Came To Dinner

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In the story “When Mr. Pizada Came to Dinner” by Jhumpa Lahiri , our story begins with a small insight on our characters background, and we learn that Mr pirzadas appears as your classic husband and father with seven daughters, he is employed as a academic botanist and lived in a rather nice three story house up until the packistani civil war, though he does not get involved in the war because the packistani government sends him away to America to study New Englands fall leaves. While in America he runs into an indian family and having more or less the same region in common hes invited over to bond and share stories, And in the process ends up meeting lilia and her parents at their house during the autumn of 1971, watching the news about

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