Interpreter of Maladies is where I'd start with Lahiri

Short stories get overlooked, so here's my pitch. Each one here takes half an hour and leaves you thinking for a day. In the first, a couple start telling each other secrets in the dark during a power cut. As someone from Dhaka, I felt that premise deeply.

My favourite is the last one, about a man's first years in America and the very old woman he rents a room from. Nothing dramatic happens in it. I still think about it all the time.