UNACCUSTOMED EARTH: Jhumpa Lahiri: Knopf: Fiction: 333 pagesJhumpa Lahiri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies, returns to issues of family, identity, and culture in this beautiful collection of stories. In the title story, a daughter worries over the decision to invite her elderly father to join her young family in Seattle. In another story, a sister watches as her brother deals with alcoholism, a vice she may have helped him cultivate. And three of the final stories follow Hema and Kaushik as their lives intersect and separate over and over again through three decades. Lahiri is one of the most accomplished authors currently writing. Her prose is perfect and her characters are full and complicated and somehow terribly familiar in their struggles.
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