Question

In a story by this author, a woman returns from a movie to find her brother passed out drunk beside her son taking (10[1])a bath. (10[1])A photojournalist (10[1])dies in a tsunami in this author’s story (10[1])“Going Ashore,” which appears (10[1])in a collection by this author (10[1])titled for a phrase from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (10[1])“The Custom-House.” A 103-year-old (-5[1])woman created (10[1])by this author breaks her hip after falling off a bench and exclaims “She’s a perfect lady!” (-5[1])upon (-5[1])meeting a former tenant’s wife. (10[1])In that story by this author, (10[1])the protagonist is forced to praise America’s landing (10[1])on the moon (10[2])as (10[1])“Splendid.” (10[5])This author of Unaccustomed Earth (10[3])wrote a story in which (10[2])Rohin (-5[1])defines the title word as (10[1])“loving someone (10[2])you don’t know.” (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this author who included (-5[1])“Sexy” (10[1])in her (10[3])collection (10[4])Interpreter (10[3])of (10[2])Maladies. (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[3])

ANSWER: Jhumpa Lahiri [or Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri] (The story in the first sentence is “Only Goodness.” The story in the third and fourth sentences is “The Third and Final Continent.”)
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