An inspired miniaturist, Lahiri creates a lexicon of loaded images. 'Unaccustomed Earth, ' the title story, dramatizes the divide between immigrant parents and their American-raised children, and is the first of several scathing inquiries into the lack of deep-down understanding and trust in a marriage between a Bengali and a non-Bengali. This collection's five powerful stories and haunting triptych of tales about the fates oftwo Bengali families in America map the perplexing hidden forces that pull families asunder and undermine marriages. Recommended for all public libraries.' -Sybil Kollappallil, 'Library Journal' 'The tight arc of a story is perfect for Lahiri's keen sense of life's abrupt and powerful changes, and her avid eye for telling details. The author's ability to flesh out completely even minor characters in every story, and especially in this trio of stories, is what will keep readers invested in the work until its heartbreaking conclusion. In a departure from 'Interpreter of Maladies, 'Lahiri divides this book into two parts, devoting the second half to 'Hema and Kaushik,' three stories that together tell the story of a young man and woman who meet as children and reunite years later halfway around the world.

What could have easily been a melodramatic soap opera is instead a meticulously crafted piece that accurately depicts the intricacies of the father-daughter relationship. The title story takes on a young mother nervously hosting her widowed father, who is visiting between trips he takes with a lover he has kept secret from his family. Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri We have received the following praise for the above: ' ''Lahiri's enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display in this collection: the gorgeous, effortless prose the characters haunted by regret, isolation, loss, and tragedies big and small and most of all, a quiet, emerging sense of humanity.' -Khaled Hosseini, author of 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner ' 'Pulitzer Prize winning Lahiri returns with her highly anticipated second collection exploring the inevitable tension brought on by family life.

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