Interpreter of Maladies
Across
- 3. Place Boorima sweeps and where she recounts stories of her past
- 4. Temple visited during the family’s tour
- 5. Last name of the Tour guide who also works as a doctor’s-office interpreter
- 8. Shukumar’s wife, who works as an editor
- 10. Bengali term for the building’s gatekeeper or doorman
- 12. Married man Miranda meets at a store
- 13. Miranda’s coworker whose cousin is experiencing marital trouble
- 14. Treat Lilia receives from the visiting scholar
- 15. Woman who begins an affair with Dev
Down
- 1. Ten-year-old narrator of the story about Mr. Pirzada
- 2. Food Boorima says she carried during her displacement
- 3. Graduate student whose dissertation work takes him to Baltimore
- 6. Last name of the Bengali visitor who joins Lilia’s family for dinner
- 7. Lights the couple prepares for the evenings without electricity
- 8. Word Miranda hears a child use to describe her in a dress
- 9. Elderly woman who sweeps the stairs in the apartment building
- 11. City where Mr. Pirzada’s wife and daughters live
- 16. The guide’s medical-office occupation and a central idea in the story