- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Here, Ashima is continuing to adjust to her life as an immigrant in America, moving into a new stage now after the birth of Gogol. In this rich metaphor, she compares life as an outsider to a “lifelong pregnancy,” a sort of perpetual state of limbo when she feels suspended, apart from the world. She expects her normal life to resume once this period is over, but the pregnancy of immigrant life has no set term—and so she is in a constant state of discomfort, of unrest, and of intense responsibility without the option to rest and feel "normal." There…