Book #3...Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of a collection of short stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies (1999), for which she won a pulitzer prize, as well as the novel The Namesake (2003), which was made into a movie by Mira Nair in 2006. I have to admit that I have yet to see the film...
This book, like her first, is a collection of stories. It is available for purchase at Amazon as well as at your local library.
I chose this book because I have read her other two and I loved them both. Reading her writing is like taking a warm bath. There is comfort to be found in her descriptions of the details and subtleties of everyday life.
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I found this book to be elegant, warm, poignant, and at times quite sad, like relationships. I enjoyed how her characters quietly lived her culture. And quietly, her characters' emotions aren't necessarily influenced by that culture. And arranged marriages are certainly not more ridiculous, less chaotic or doomed than so many of the un-arranged kind. I will read more of her work. Diane
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