Quotes from book
Unaccustomed Earth

Name: Unaccustomed Earth
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. This is her second collection of stories, the first being the Pulitzer-winning Interpreter of Maladies. As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Bengali American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment.

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth