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Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Summary:

Eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. In "Unaccustomed Earth" Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations" a husband's attempt to turn an old friend's wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness" a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never has is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik" a trio of linked stories - a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love and fate - we follow the lives of a girl and boy, who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel form innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307265739
ISBN: 9780676979343
ISBN: 0307265730
ISBN: 0676979343
Physical Description: 333 p. ; 22 cm. : ill.
Edition: 1st North American ed.
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Novel.
Formatted Contents Note:	Unaccustomed earth -- Hell-heaven -- Choice of accommodations -- Only goodness -- Nobody's business -- Hema and Kaushik -- Once in a lifetime -- Year's end -- Going ashore.