Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Lahiri a London, 'yar' yan gudun hijirar Indiyawan Bengali daga jihar West Bengal. Iyalinta sun koma Amurka lokacin da take 'yar shekara biyu; Lahiri tana daukar kanta Ba'amurkiya kuma ta ce, "Ba a haife ni a nan ba, amma da ma na kasance". Lahiri ta girma ne a Kingston, Rhode Island, inda mahaifinta Amar Lahiri ke aiki a matsayin ma'aikacin ɗakin karatu a Jami'ar Rhode Island; shi ne tushen babban jarumi a cikin "The Third and Final Continent", labarin da ya kammala Mai fassarar cututtuka. Mahaifiyar Lahiri tana son 'ya'yanta su girma da sanin al'adunsu na Bengali, kuma danginta sukan ziyarci dangi a Calcutta (yanzu Kolkata).Lokacin da ta fara makarantar renon yara a Kingston, Rhode Island, malamin Lahiri ya yanke shawarar kiranta da sunan ƙaunatacciyarta, Jhumpa, saboda ya fi sauƙi a furta shi fiye da "sunan ta". Lahiri ya tuna, "A koyaushe ina jin kunyar sunana.... Kana jin kamar kana ɓata wa wani rai ne kawai ta wurin kasancewa yadda kake". Lahiri ta rikice-rikice game da asalinta shine wahayi ga rikice-rikice na Gogol, mai ba da labari na littafinta The Namesake, game da sunansa na musamman. A wani talifi a Newsweek, Lahiri ta yi da'awar cewa "ana matsa mata sosai ta kasance da halaye biyu, ta kasance da aminci ga tsohon duniya kuma ta yi amfani da sabon". Yawancin abubuwan da ta fuskanta yayin da take girma a matsayin yarinya an nuna su ta waɗannan bangarorin biyu suna jan juna. Lokacin da ta girma, ta gano cewa tana iya zama wani ɓangare na waɗannan girma biyu ba tare da kunya da gwagwarmaya da ta yi lokacin da take yaro ba. Lahiri ta kammala karatunta daga Makarantar Sakandaren Kingstown ta Kudu kuma ta sami digiri na farko a fannin adabin Ingilishi daga Barnard College na Jami'ar Columbia a shekarar 1989.Lahiri daga baya ta sami digiri da yawa daga Jami'ar Boston: MA a Turanci, MFA a Rubutun Halitta, MA a Halitta Kwatanta, da Ph.D. a Nazarin Renaissance. Rubutun karatunta, wanda aka kammala a 1997, an ba shi suna Accursed Palace: The Italian palazzo on the Jacobean stage (1603<unk>1625). Babban mashawarta sune William Carroll (Ingilishi) da...  Tambaya: Yaushe ta kammala kwaleji?
Shekara ta 1989