Thursday, January 20, 2011

Unaccustomed Earth by Jumpa Lahiri

My book group just finished reading this book.  Amazingly well written short stories.  Usually I am not fond of short stories because by the time I get engaged in the story, it is over.  But these are marvelous.  The characters feel fully real and I find I want to know much, much more about them. 

Much of the stories center around the theme of immigrants living in a foreign land (here).   The stories feel extremely real.  A lot of isolation and loneliness, too, unfortunately.

Great book but it did leave me feeling sad.

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