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100			_aLahiri, Jhumpa _eauthor.
245			_aUnaccustomed Earth _c/ by Jhumpa Lahiri
260			_aGurugram: _bPenguin Random House, _c2008.
300			_a333p. _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
520			_aIn the stunning title story, 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 had 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 from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.
650			_aFiction _vInterpersonal relations _xImmigrants—United States _zEast Indian Americans _9811507
650			_aShort stories _vChildren of immigrants _9811508
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