Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

In a series of short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri explores what it is like to be a well educated, reasonably prosperous and successful American of Asian Indian extraction in a land that is of one’s birth and yet a foreign land notwithstanding. The characters of the stories seem always to be searching, restless in their struggle to find an identity, a place, a sense of belonging that grows both from the land around them and from what remains inside themselves. Alienation prevails or is overcome as the young men and women of these stories struggle to find their place in family, land, and nationality, in short, in unaccustomed earth.

Submitted by D. L Sebly, staff