Time to start the discussion of our next novel from The Bestseller Code 100 list,  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.

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Unaccustomed Earth* by Jhumpa Lahiri

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What the book is about:

In this collection of eight short stories the author explores how the lives of people are changed as they migrate from place to place, specifically from South Asia to America. She asks the question whether — as a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests — people thrive when they “strike their roots into unaccustomed earth” instead of being “planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.”

Have you read Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Related posts:

  1. Book-beginnings, a discussion of the first line of the novel
  2. Karen’s review from a reader’s perspective
  3. Roberta’s review from a writer’s perspective
  4. After you finish the book, you might want to drop by to take our survey.

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What are we reading next?

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The next book is number 88. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (2011) – Discussion begins April 24, 2017