Thursday, March 31, 2011

Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri 333 p.

This is a collection of long-ish short stories by the author of The Namesake. In many of the stories, very little appears to happen, but they are completely engrossing all the same. For much of the book, I had the feeling that Lahiri was writing about me personally, so accurate (for me) were her psychological insights. My favorite was the title story, about a young mother visiting with her widowed father, and trying to determine the new boundaries of their relationship.

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