I've never been a fan of short stories, but I adored Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth that came out about two years ago.  Just like in her two previous books, The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri writes stories that revolve around relocated Bengali Americans and their adaptation to their new culture.  It's about arranged marriages and how they work out once they come across the ocean, the high expectations they have on their children, the traditions and past that bind them all together, love, hate, betrayal and … [Read more...]