Friday, February 19, 2010

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2009)

Great stories reflecting Bengali immigrant life in the Boston area. If you switched out the food and customs, you could almost be talking about Latvian Americans. Lahiri has a beautiful style, though all her stories end quite sadly. There is a Latvian term "saldserigs" meaning sweet and melancholy at the same time.

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