Unaccustomed Earth
Good Books rating 4.17
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- ID: 73
- Added: 2025-08-30
- Updated: 2025-08-30
- Reviews: 3
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.
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- Reviewers have lauded Unaccustomed Earth as the finest she has ever written yet.
- Lahiri showcases a considerable talent in full bloom with emotional wisdom and exquisite prose.
- The stories poignantly explore family secrets and generational divides.
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- Lahiri's hallmarks are an extraordinarily sensitive prose and emotional insight.
- At times, the story has not moved at all, reflecting a subtle and static narrative.
- Her delicate treatment of relationships and cultural tensions is compelling.
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- This substantial collection of short fiction became an evocative exploration of the immigrant experience.
- Lahiri captures the complexities of cultural identity with depth and sensitivity.
- The stories resonate with poignant portrayals of family dynamics.