I found this collection uneven, but it's difficult to articulate why. I thought part one dreary and uninspired, while part two was achingly beautiful. Lahiri doesn't seem to be doing anything different in the two parts, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to why I felt so differently about them. Her writin...
The experiences you end up accumulating in life bleed into connections to other stories. I read fiction because it draws worlds just as deep, glorious and unknown as the ones we keep to ourselves.
Really like this author. I want to savor the last half of short stories, so will put it down for now, enjoy the memories of the first half, and look forward to the rest.
Indira Varma reads the first part of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's story, Unaccustomed Earth, exploring the dark secrets of family life through the Bengali immigrant experience.Synopsis - When Ruma's mother dies, she leaves a space neither she nor her father knows how to fill. Back i...
Jhumpa Lahiri is currently my favorite writer. I love the delicate and simple language that she uses; it doesn't stand in the way of the story that she's trying to tell. Even though her stories almost always focus on seemingly mundane events in the lives of her characters -- and, indeed, her one fla...
Unaccustomed Earth is Lahiri’s third book, with two collections of short stories and one novel. She seems to know the immigrant experience, the loneliness, the out-of-sync feeling with the rest of the world. Her characters try to form new bonds and try to change to fit the new world in which they ar...
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