Unaccustomed Earths by Jhumpa Lahiri

My first experience with Jhumpa Lahiri was on a sailing trip I took with my parents, shortly after I graduated from college. I’d recently, in some vague way, let it be known that I was writing and submitting stories, and my parents handed me Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, telling me about the Indian-American writer who’d won a Pullitzer prize for fiction.

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