Unaccustomed Earth

This is another set of short stories and they are good. That is all I can say. Her stories have gotten too monotonous for me, and except for the surprise endings, there is not much. They are again descriptions of Bengali families that grew up close to MIT or Harvard and the differences in generations. Ms Lahiri is a good writer. She has talent, but I think after a certain point, descriptions of sari, vermilion, fish curry etc becomes plain boring. I was looking forward to something a little more than that but was disappointed. If you can ignore or skip these trivial things, the stories are not bad. I particularly enjoyed the second part which has one story in 3 parts.

If you want more detailed review, go here : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Schillinger3-t.html