In no particular order, reexamine “Mr. Pirzada comes to Dine” and read Fatimah Asghar’s wonderful poem “Partition” here: https://poems.com/poem/partition/. Please print the poem out and mark it up.
Then, spend some time journaling on how the two works might be connected. What do they say about history, inheritance, and the immigrant experience? Differences? Similarities? Think as well about Asghar’s title “Partition”; what boundaries does Lahiri’s story explore, question? We’ll share these, so write something you can be proud of
