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Book review unaccustomed earth7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Although more traditional her father tries to persuade her to continue her legal career while being a mother. Ruma has left her successful legal career to raise children, and her husband works hard to support the family. The father, a retiree and recent widower, visits his daughter's new home in the suburbs of Seattle. ![]() The title story of the book is about the family relationships between three generations: the father, his daughter, Ruma, and her son, Akash. Four of the eight stories ("Hell-Heaven", "Nobody's Business", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Year's End") were previously published in The New Yorker Part One "Unaccustomed Earth" The title of the collection is taken from a passage in "The Custom-House," the preface to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ![]() The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1. As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. ![]() It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri. ![]()
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