Written originally in Italian and translated by the author, Whereabouts follows a woman moving through an unnamed city, recording moments of solitude and passing encounters.

Each short section holds a place—“In the Waiting Room,” “At the Pool,” “In the Elevator”—mapping a life through spatial and emotional coordinates, becoming a work that resists accumulation and instead lingers in repetition, distance, and drift. Themes of exile, anonymity, and interiority surface without resolution, producing a text that make you feel somewhat suspended as a reader. Lahiri's translator background and attitude towards the psychology of language really shimmer throughout.

It sits alongside Lahiri’s ongoing engagement with translation, authorship, and linguistic estrangement.