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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Wednesday April 23, 2008

Jhumpa Lahiri's second collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, finds her at the rising peak of her literary powers. These stories are longer (nearly novella length in some cases) than those in Interpreter of Maladies, her Pulitzer Prize collection of short stories. These new stories reveal a clear progression of her literary power from that first collection to her first novel, The Namesake, to now.

Review of Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

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